Note 026
Homer's sacrifices are not accompanied with any
inquisition of entrails (see Feithius, Antiquitat. Homer. l.
i. c. 10, 16. The Tuscans, who produced the first
Haruspices, subdued both the Greeks and the Romans (Cicero
de Divinatione, ii. 23).
The History Of The Decline and Fall
Of The Roman Empire—
Chapter 28