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Sacrificial prognostication of the Magi (1)

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05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore



 		Keywords
extispicy
Magi
omens
Period
6th century CE
Roman Empire 		Channel
Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Nonnus, Epiphany 15 (Scholia):
Fifteenth (scholion) is concerning the sacrificial prognostication of the magi. It is thus. The Magi, by means of sacrifices, used to utter prognostications by means of signs in the liver. For when they sacrificed and cut (the animal) up, they saw certain signs in the cuts, and in the liver, and in these other things, and by means of them they used to say what was going to happen.

Source (list of abbreviations)
pseudo-Nonnus, Epiphany 15 (Scholia)

Bibliography

Brock 1971, 67Brock, Sebastian. The Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Nonnos Mythological Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971.

Amar Annus


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