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单词 Haruspices
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Haruspices

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Why is the haruspex eyeballing the sheep's liver?

为什么肠卜师目不转睛地打量那绵羊的肝脏呢?

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Haruspex

(重定向自Haruspices)
Diagram of the sheep's liver found at Picenum with Etruscan inscriptions on the bronze sheep's Liver of Piacenza

Akkadian language  clay liver models written in a local dialect, recovered from the palace at Mari, dated to the 19th or 18th century BC.

In the religion of Ancient Rome, a haruspex (plural haruspices; also called aruspex) was a person trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy (haruspicina) the inspection of the entrails (exta), hence also extispicy (extispicium) of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry. The reading of omens specifically from the liver is also known by the Greek term hepatoscopy (also hepatomancy).

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