Identifier: ridpathsuniversa11ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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t the attention of theharuspex. The offerings made by the primitive Ro-mans were fruits of the earth. The mostancient gifts were parched meal mingled withsalt. This was the celebrated mola salsa, wdiich,during the whole age of Rome, remained apart of the sacrificial emblems. After thisthe ofl^eriugs were honey, wine, milk, andcakes. Of the living sacrifices the swine wasregarded as the most acceptable. The appetiteof the priest, to whom always fell the remain-der of whatever was ofl^ered, determined thepreference of the gods! In the great sacri-fices made on solemn occasions by the state,the sheep and th< bullock were led, together _wdth the pig, to tlie altar, and all three wereslain in the festival called stiovetaurilia. commander of a fleet, about to go into battle,tossed the holy birds some corn, but they wouldnot eat. Roman-like, he became angry and threwthe whole coopful into the sea, accompanied withthe remark that if he could not make them eat/„■ ronld mr,J:e them drinh
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HARl 1 b\ h H I ^TIN(? ROME.—RELIGIOX. !)7 In prayer the Roman stooil. If the .super-nal deities were addiessed the hands were heldup, but not in that exalted attitude peculiarto the Greeks. When the inferual powerswere prayed to, the palms were tiirneil ilowuto the earth. The face was kejjt to the front;the eyes closed, the head covered with the to^a. The beasts intended for saci-ilice were gar-landed with flowers. Thus wreathed, they wereled to the altar. The bullocks horns werebound with fillets and the forehead sprinkledwith the molamba. The ihatli hlmv was givenwith an axe; but in the ea>e of the smallervictims, life was taken by opening the veinsof the throat. As soon as the animal wasstruck down, the body was opened and the en-trails taken out and examined by the harus-pex. Special attention was given to the heart,lungs, and liver, and from these organs weregathered the signs which the ))riests interprete<l.If the indications were regarded as auspicious,the entrails wer

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