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Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, 3.2


γενόμενος δʼ ἱερεὺς τῶν αὐγούρων προσαγορευομένων, οὓς τῆς ἀπʼ ὀρνίθων καὶ διοσημειῶν ἀποδεικνύουσι Ῥωμαῖοι μαντικῆς ἐπισκόπους καὶ φύλακας, οὕτω προσέσχε τοῖς πατρῴοις ἔθεσι καὶ κατενόησε τὴν τῶν παλαιῶν περὶ τὸ θεῖον εὐλάβειανMoreover, when he was made one of the priests called Augurs, whom the Romans appoint as guardians and overseers of the art of divination from the flight of birds and from omens in the sky, he so carefully studied the ancestral customs of the city, and so thoroughly understood the religious ceremonial of the ancient Romans, that his priestly function


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1. Plutarch, Aemilius Paulus, 3.3 (1st cent. CE - 2nd cent. CE)

3.3. which men had thought to be a kind of honour, sought merely on account of the reputation which it gave, was made to appear one of the higher arts, and testified in favour of those philosophers who define religion as the science of the worship of the gods.


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aemilius paullus, l. Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 321
aemilius paulus Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 120
ambition Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 120
augurs Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 321
livy Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 120
perseus (son of philip v) Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 120
priesthoods Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 321
tribunes of the plebs' Balbo and Santangelo, A Community in Transition: Rome between Hannibal and the Gracchi (2022) 321
tyche (vulso, gnaeus manlius Beneker et al., Plutarch’s Unexpected Silences: Suppression and Selection in the Lives and Moralia (2022) 120