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M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley), book 1, line 523 (search)

fibre hid, and through the vital parts The membrane small; the heart has ceased to throb; Blood oozes through the ducts; the caul is split: And, fatal omen of impending ill, One lobe o'ergrows the other; of the twain The one lies flat and sick, the other beats And keeps the pulse in rapid strokes astir. Disaster's near approach thus learned, he cries- ' Whatever may be the purpose of the gods, ' Tis not for me to tell; this offered beast ' Not Jove possesses, but the gods below. ' We dare not speak our fears, yet fear doth make ' The future worse than fact. May all the gods ' Prosper the tokens, and the sacrifice ' Be void of truth, and Tages (famous seer) Tages. A dwarf, with the figure of a child, but with grey hairs, ploughed up by a peasant near Tarquinii. He betrayed the secrets of Etruscan lore and straightway died. (Mommsen, vol. i. p. 190; Dennis, 'Cities and Cemeteries of Etruria,' vol. i. p. 373.) ' Have vainly taught these mysteries.' Such his words Involved, mysterious.

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