Maiores enim pecoribus immolatis, quae pascebantur in is locis, quibus aut oppida aut castra stativa constituebantur, inspiciebant iocinera, et si erant livida et vitiosa primo alia immolabant dubitantes utrum morbo an pabuli vitio laesa essent.
For the ancients sacrificed the beasts which were feeding in those places where towns or fixed camps were being placed, and they used to inspect the livers, which if at the first trial they were livid and faulty, they went on to sacrifice others, doubting whether they were injured by disease or faulty diet.
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