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This image was inspired by Publius Nigidius Figulus born in 98 BC. J. - C. in Etruria.
Nigidius Figulus practiced the Etruscan divinatory art called brontoscopy, it consisted for "lightning haruspices" to observe lightning and thunder. Nigidius left a brontoscopic calendar which allowed to give for each day of the year (if it thundered that day) a prediction. Quaestor and friend of Cicero, Nigidius Figulus remained famous in history for having predicted in senatorial session the fate of the future emperor Augustus, who had just been born (Suetonius II-XCIV).

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