Amon
but was ordered by the prince to leave the city; the youth
intervened successfully (ca. 1100 B.C.).
[1596] So Teiresias (_Odyssey_, x, 492 ff.; _OEdipus
Tyrannus_, 92) and Samuel (1 Sam. ix).
[1597] Mic. i, 8; cf. 2 Kings iii, 15 (music as a
preliminary condition of inspiration).
[1598] As among the Hebrews, the Greeks, and other ancient
peoples.
[1599] Formerly, says Cicero (_De Divinatione_, i, 16),
almost nothing of moment, or even in private affairs, was
undertaken without an augury.
[1600] For a tabulation of omens and other signs and of
forms of divinatory procedure see article "Divination" in
_La Grande Encyclopedie_.
[1601] Cicero, _De Divinatione_, i, 1-4; Diodorus Siculus,
i, 70, 81; Maspero, _Dawn of Civilization_, p. 216 ff.;
Steindorff, _Religion of the Ancient Egyptians_, p. 113 ff.
(cf. Gen. xliv, 5, 15, which may point to an Egyptian custom
of divination by cup); Jastrow, _Religion Babyloniens und
Assyriens_, and _Aspects of Religious Belief and Practice in
Babylonia and Assyria_; Hopkins, _Religions of India_, pp.
256, 328; De Groot, _Religious System of China_, i, 103 ff.;
iii, chap. xii; Buckley, in Saussaye's _Lehrbuch der
Religionsgeschichte_, 2d ed. (China); articles "Divination"
in _Encyclopaedia Biblica_, Hastings's _Dictionary of the
Bible_, and _Jewish Encyclopedia_; Bouche-Leclercq,
_Histoire de la divination dans l'antiquite_; articles
"Divinatio" and "Haruspices" in Daremberg and Saglio,
_Dictionnaire des antiquites grecques et romaines_; Gardner
and Jevons, _Greek Antiquities_, chap. vii; Stengel and
Oehmichen, _Die griechischen Sakralaltertuemer_; Wissowa,
_Religion der Roemer_, p. 450 ff.; Fowler, _Religious
Experience of the Roman People_, lecture xiii; Wellhausen,
_Reste arabischen Heidentumes_, pp. 126 ff., 148 ff.;
article "Celts" in Hastings, _Encyclopaedia of Religion and
Ethics_; Hastings, op. cit., ii, 54 ff.; Saussaye, _Religion
of the Teutons_, Index, s.v. _Divination_.
[1602] Turner, _Samoa_, Index, s.v. _Omens_.
[1603] These animals were originally themselves divine, and
therefore, by their own knowledge, capable of indicating the
course of events; cf. Sec. 905, note.
[1604] Hollis, _The Masai_, p. 323 f.; id., _The Nandi_, p.
79.
[1605] Ellis, _Tshi_, p. 203.
[1606] Conolly, _Journey to the North of India_, 2d ed.,
1838, ii, 137 ff.
[1607] Tylo
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