Idmon, Phoebus' son,... to him the Father gave by his ordinance the foreknowledge of omens divine, whether he inquired of flames or close-viewed entrails smooth, or of the air thick with fowls that cannot lie. (Gaius Valerius Flaccus)

Idmon, Phoebus' son,... to him the Father gave by his ordinance the foreknowledge of omens divine, whether he inquired of flames or close-viewed entrails smooth, or of the air thick with fowls that cannot lie.

Gaius Valerius Flaccus

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