[120] Variant ‘the offspring’, i. e., the newly born infant.
[121] I. e., there will be a political upheaval.
[122] This malformation of a child with a closed anus is frequently referred to in Roman omens, e. g., Julius Obsequens, de prodigiis (ed. Roßbach), §§ 26 and 40. See below p. 52.
[123] I. e., only the rudiments of a foot are to be seen.
[124] I. e., they are directly attached to the body without thighs.
[125] I. e., bent and deformed so that one cannot stand on it.
[126] Twisted legs as in the illustration in Jastrow’s Bildermappe zur Rel. Babyl. und Assyr. No. 35.
[127] As, e. g., Guinard, Précis de Teratologie or Birnbaum, Klinik der Mißbildungen.
[128] Cun. Texts XXVIII Pl. 34, with duplicate K 630 (Virolleaud, Fragments des Textes Divinatoires 9).
[129] I. e., a shapeless abortion suggesting pudenda.