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Or is it only logical, if no one would use for sacrifice a victim afflicted with a sore, or use such birds for augury, that they should be still more on their guard against such things in their own case, and be pure, unhurt, and sound when they advance to interpret signs from the gods? Cf.Moralia, 383 b; Leviticus, xxii. 17-21. For a sore seems to be a sort of mutilation or pollution of the body.
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Why did King Servius Tullius build a shrine of Little Fortune, which they call Brevis?Hartman’s theory that Plutarch is rendering Occasio = Fortuna Brevis) is very doubtful.