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Dodona

also: the Dodonaean oak

The sanctuary of Zeus in Epirus, home to the oldest Greek oracle, whose prophecies were read from the rustling of a sacred oak. Cicero jokes that Terentia's wooded estate rivals Epirus, lacking only the Dodonaean oak.

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Ad Atticum 2.4 letters · 1 mention
On Divination philosophy · 1 mention

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