Madeline Parkes

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Plutarch has a good one about Caesar performing a sacrifice and opening up the beast to find that it had no heart. He clarifies that this isn’t normal, just in case his readers thought it might be. Suetonius also includes this one, but in his version Caesar snorts derisively and says that if he had wanted the beast to have a heart, it would have. Which is a pretty baller response to a nightmarish omen.
A Fatal Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum: Murder in Ancient Rome
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