Note 638 — Chapter V · THE AUSPICES
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Dio Cass, xxxviii. 13. 3. Lightning from left to right especially in a clear sky was favorable; Dion. Hal. ii. 5. 2; Verg. Aen. ii. 692; vii. 141; ix. 628 (on the last, see Servius). A thunderclap was unfavorable to one entering office; xxiii. 31. 13; Plut. Marcell. 12; cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. i. 80, n. 2.