[123] He who inspects the entrails of the sacrifice, and from thence foretels the success of the prayer.
[124] The ancients endeavoured to help the moon, during an eclipse, by sounding trumpets.
[125] A woman-grammarian, who corrects her husband for speaking false Latin, which is called breaking Priscian's head.
[126] i. e. of the milk asses.
[127] Sicilian tyrants were grown to a proverb, in Latin, for their cruelty.
[128] Bellona's priests were a sort of fortune-tellers; and their high priest an eunuch.
[129] A garment was given to the priest, which he threw, or was supposed to throw, into the river; and that, they thought, bore all the sins of the people, which were drowned with it.
[130] Chaldeans are thought to have been the first astrologers.
[131] Otho succeeded Galba in the empire, which was foretold him by an astrologer.
[132] Mars and Saturn are the two unfortunate planets; Jupiter and Venus the two fortunate.