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Numerius Suffustius

Suffustius

also: Numerius Suffustius, Numerium Suffustium

An honorable man of Praeneste who, driven by repeated dreams, split a flint from which the famous Praenestine lots leapt out. Cicero relates the legend as the discreditable origin-story of lot-divination.

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