The dissemination of divination in roman republican times

Appendix 6
Examples of counterintuitive, bizarre and common prodigies between 218 and 44
BCE
Counter intuitive prodigies
Coast was burning (in 217, Liv.22.1)
Lamb born with filled utters (in 210, Liv.27.4)
Rain with milk (in 209, Liv.27.11)
Ground was suddenly opened (in 203, Liv.30.2)
The statue of Juno Sospita cried (in 181, Liv.40.19)
Stone fell from the sky in to the grove of Mars (in 177, Liv.41.9)
Fish came out of the ground (in 173, Liv.42.2)
Boy with four arms and legs born (in 166, Obs.12)
Hostilius Mancius heard a voice saying: ”Mane, Mancine”[Stay Mancius] (in 137,
Obs. 24)
The Alban Mount was burning in the middle of the night (in 113, Obs.38)
A matron gave birth to a snake (in 83, Obs.57)
Statues were sweating (in 53, Dio.40.17)
Bizarre prodigies
Raven built its nest in the temple of Juno Sospita (in 214, Liv.24.10)
Sounds of battle was heard in the temple of Jupiter (in 213, Liv.24.44)
Four fingers cut of by lightning (in 206, Obs.41)
Praetor and consul died in office (in 180, Liv.40.37)
Snake was seen in the temple of Fortune (in 169, Liv.43.13)
Weasel was thrown by a falcon into a group of senators (in 166, Obs.12)
A human was eaten by another human in a quarry (in 108, Obs.40)
Statue of Mars was standing on its head (in 105, Obs.42)
Swarm of bees in front of the temple of Salus (in 104, Obs 43)
An owl seen in the city (in 99, Obs.46)
Wolf in the city (in 96, Obs.49)
Food for a goddess was eaten by a dog (in 93, Obs.52)
Common
Palm tree was burning (in 214, Liv.24.10)
Storm (in 212, Liv.25.7)
Birds flew from their nests in Diana’s grove (in 210, Liv.27.4)
Flooding of the Tiber. Buildings collapsed (in 193, Liv.35.9)
Statues tilted by storm (in 179, Liv.40.45)
Three women died after a sacrifice in the temple of Minerva (in 166, Obs.12)
Triplets born (in 163, Obs.14)
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