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Headword:
Ἡπατοσκοπία
Adler number: eta,419
Translated headword: liver; liver-inspecting, haruspicy
Vetting Status: low
Translation: Liver-inspecting.[1] See under Persians.[2]
Also liver-inspecting, the dissection of the entrails, by which they used to foretell what would happen; for in dissecting they would observe certain signs in the entrails.[2]
Greek Original:Ἧπαρ. Ἡπατοσκοπία. ζήτει ἐν τῷ Πέρσαι. καὶ Ἠπατοσκοπία, ἡ τῶν ἐγκάτων ἀνατομή, δι' ὧν προεμήνυον τὰ συμβησόμενα: ἀνατέμνοντες γὰρ σημεῖά τινα ἐθεώρουν ἐν τοῖς ἐγκάτοις.
Notes:
[1] The headword itself ("liver") is unglossed.
[2]
pi 1367 -- but see rather
mu 9.
[3] Perhaps (Adler) from a scholion on Gregory of Nazianzus.
Translated by: Catharine Roth on 17 September 2006@00:29:35.
Vetted by: David Whitehead (supplemented headword and tr; augmented notes and keywords) on 18 September 2006@04:08:06.
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