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...ar goddess invoked by [[Boudica]] in her fight against the [[Roman Britain|Roman occupation of Britain]] in AD 60.<ref>{{Harvnb|Kightly|1982|pp=36–40}}</ref ...>{{citation |title=Cassius Dio |url=https://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Cassius_Dio/62*.html |publisher=Bill Thayer |access-date=7 August 201 ...

{{short description|Roman lexicographer and writer (55 BC-20 AD)}} '''Marcus Verrius Flaccus''' (c. 55 BC{{snd}}AD 20) was a [[Ancient Rome|Roman]] [[grammar]]ian and teacher who flourished under [[Augustus Caesar|Augustu ...

{{Short description|Ancient Roman politician and general}} ...08-29 |website=History Archive |language=en}}</ref> was a [[Roman Republic|Roman]] politician. ...

...eeks]], and is equivalent to the [[augury]] employed by the [[Ancient Rome|ancient Romans]]. ...modern term from Greek ''ornis'' "bird" and ''manteia'' "divination"; in [[Ancient Greek]]: οἰωνίζομαι "take omens from the flight and cries of birds" ...

{{Short description|Ancient Roman law permitting marriage between Patricians and Plebeians}} ...ring the right of {{lang|la|[[conubium]]}} (marriage) between [[patrician (ancient Rome)|patricians]] and [[plebs|plebeians]].<ref>Livy, iv. 1–6.</ref><ref>Br ...

{{Short description|Roman religious practice}} ...igious practice|parallel practices in other cultures|Ornithomancy|the band|Augury (band)}} ...

{{Short description|Ancient Greek and Roman purification ritual}} ...io''''' was an [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] and [[ancient Rome|ancient Roman]] purification ritual.<ref>Heitland p. 224</ref>{{Sfn|Leo|2019|p=229}} It i ...

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...in, "Concerning [[Divination]]") is a philosophical dialogue about ancient Roman divination written in 44&nbsp;BC by [[Marcus Tullius Cicero]]. ...ome form of skill of interpretation (i.e., [[haruspicy]], [[extispicy]], [[augury]], [[astrology]], and other [[oracle]]s). ...

{{short description|Ancient Roman priest tasked with divination by the observation of birds}} {{about|the Roman religious practice|parallel practices in other cultures|Ornithomancy}} ...

| religion = Temples to [[Diana (goddess)|Diana]], [[Ceres (Roman mythology)|Ceres]], [[Liber]] and [[Libera (mythology)|Libera]], [[Bona Dea ...|avenˈtiːno|}}) is one of the [[Seven hills of Rome|Seven Hills]] on which ancient [[Rome]] was built. It belongs to [[Ripa (rione of Rome)|Ripa]], the modern ...

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{{Short description|Boundary around the ancient city of Rome}} ...b Aureliano et Honorio - Part III.jpg|thumb|Map of Rome in the time of the Roman Republic. The ''pomerium'' at that time is marked in pink; the [[Capitoline ...

{{Short description|Bodyguard and attendant to ancient Roman magistrates}} [[File:37.03a roman lictor.png|thumb|200px|upright|Bronze statuette of a Roman lictor carrying a fasces, 20 BC to 20 AD]] ...

...spicina]]'')}} the inspection of the entrails{{efn|''[[Glossary of ancient Roman religion#exta|exta]]''&mdash;hence also '''extispicy''' (L. ''extispicium'' Various ancient cultures of the Near East, such as the Babylonians, also read omens specifi ...

...=Princeton |access-date=8 March 2011}}</ref> It was commonly believed in [[ancient history]], and still believed by some today, that omens bring divine messag ==Ancient Near East== ...

{{Short description|Ancient religious monument in Rome, Italy}} {{infobox ancient site ...

...l Studies, University of Pennsylvania|page = 131|quote = Hippophagy in pre-Roman Gaul can no longer be denied MULDER, J., 'A Historical Review of Wound Trea ..., who both carefully observed his actions and neighing. Nor in any sort of augury is more faith and assurance reposed, not by the populace only, but even by ...

{{Short description|Ancient Greco-Roman astrology}} ...nical terminology of this tradition of astrology were largely written in [[Ancient Greek|Greek]] (or sometimes [[Latin]]). The tradition originated sometime a ...

{{short description|Roman cults of the wine god and seer Bacchus}} {{Ancient Roman religion sidebar}} ...