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For hariolus outside the play-writers, Cic. _de Nat.
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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According to some accounts there was this difference between the “hariolus” and the “aruspex,” that the former foretold human events, the latter those relating to the Deities.
The Comedies of Terence Literally Translated into English Prose, with Notes Terence 1847
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* vel magus vet astrologus, hariolus, somniorum interpres, praestigiator
The Mission and Expansion of Christianity in the First Three Centuries 1851-1930 1908
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The following lines from the Telamo of Ennius shows us the _hariolus_, as well as the word _vates_ with a discreditable adjective attached: sed superstitiosi vates impudentesque harioli aut inertes, aut insani, aut quibus egestas imperat, qui sibi semitam non sapiunt, alteri monstrant viam, quibu 'divitias pollicentur, ab iis drachmam ipsi petunt. [
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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