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Etruria

also: Etruriam

The region of west-central Italy north of Rome; in May 43 BC Decimus Brutus reckons it a possible refuge for Antony because it was then without an army.

Reading notes

On His Consulship §2 Now what the Lydian seer of the Tyrrhenian race
The haruspices, Etruscan diviners who read entrails, lightning, and prodigies, were thought to descend from Lydian settlers (so 'Lydian ... of the Tyrrhenian race'). Their warnings of 65 BC, the consulship of Torquatus and Cotta, are fulfilled in Cicero's year.
On His Consulship §2 did not draw forth grim utterances from the Etruscan scrolls
The libri haruspicini and the other ritual books of the disciplina Etrusca recorded the rules for reading prodigies; the haruspices consulted them to expound the lightning-strikes of 65 BC.
On Divination §1.92 ten of the sons of the leading men
By an old decree the Senate had the noble youth of Etruria trained in haruspicy, lest the art decline into a mere trade. It was thus deliberately preserved within the leading families.
On Divination §2.42 The Etruscans divided the heaven into sixteen parts
Etruscan lightning-lore (the disciplina fulguralis) partitioned the sky into sixteen regions, the quarter from which a bolt came determining its meaning.
On the Nature of the Gods §2.10 the responses of the haruspices
Haruspices were Etruscan diviners who read the will of the gods in the entrails of sacrificial animals and in lightning. Their discipline, alongside Roman augury, is cited by Balbus as confirmation that the gods communicate with men.
For Publius Sulla §53 to seize Etruria
Etruria, the region north-west of Rome (modern Tuscany), where Catiline's veteran army was massing under C. Manlius. Autronius was supposedly to raise it; Cicero stresses that Sulla was nowhere near these theatres of revolt.