Do as I say, not as I do?: report versus reality in augury -- Convenience or conversation?: why 'watching the sky' was more than wishful thinking -- Out of control?: the effects of augury on Roman public life.
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Scholarship on Roman Republican augury has previously tended towards the view that official divination was organized to tell its users what they wanted to hear. This volume argues instead that its rules did not allow humans simply to create or ignore signs at will: when human and divine will clashed it was the latter which was supposed to prevail.