If the left ear is torn off, the house of the owner will perish.
But immediately following this we have again an evil omen for the right ear and a favorable one for the left. Three more tablets are taken up with omens associated with all manner of peculiarities in the formation of the ears, head, lips, mouth, and feet of lambkins, and it is not until the fifteenth tablet of the series is reached that another subject, the young of mares, is introduced.
The prognostications in the case of colts have about the same character as those in the case of lambkins. The same signs are singled out for mention, and the omens are not only, just as in the illustrations adduced, evenly divided between the fate of the country and its ruler, and of the owner of the colt or mare, but we can also observe a consistent application of the same principles, so far as these principles may be detected. A few illustrations will make this clear:[653]
If a colt has no right legs, the house[654] will be destroyed.
If a colt has no left legs, the days of the ruler will be long.
If a colt has no legs, the country will be destroyed.
If a colt has the right leg shortened,[655] ... his stall[656] will be destroyed.
If a colt has the left leg shortened, the stall[656] will be destroyed
If a colt has no hoof on the right foreleg, the wife will cause trouble to her husband.
If a colt has no hoofs at all, there will be dissensions (?) within the country, and the enemy will enter the ruler's land.