concept
prodigies
also: prodigium
Unnatural signs (blood, stone-rain, monstrous births) read as marks of divine displeasure, requiring expiation before public business could proceed.
Reading notes
- The History of Rome, Book 23 §31 the other prodigies were expiated
Unnatural signs (blood, stone-rain, monstrous births) read as marks of divine displeasure, requiring expiation before public business could proceed.
- The History of Rome, Book 24 §10 These prodigies were expiated
Unnatural signs read as marks of divine displeasure, requiring expiation with victims and supplication before public business proceeded.