These officials, at the command of the senate, consulted the Sibylline books in order to discover, not exact predictions of definite future events, but the religious observances necessary to avert extraordinary calamities (pestilence, earthquake) and to expiate prodigies in cases where the national deities were unable, or unwilling, to help. Only the interpretation of the oracle which was considered suitable to the emergency was made known to the public, not the oracle itself. [Please select]
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Comparison with similar observances at Athens indicates that theatrical representations were to follow. [Please select]
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The poetry, the legend, the lovely and touching observances are going fast. [Please select]
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It was primarily a religion of conduct, not a religion of observances and sacrifices. [Please select]
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Proceeding upon that policy, the predecessors of Gratus had carefully abstained from interfering with any of the sacred observances of their subjects. [Please select]
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There were people everywhere, and everywhere the people were engaged in sacred observances. [Please select]
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Peter Tanner prided himself upon his strict religious observances: he was a deacon in the church. [Please select]
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He rigorously enforced monastic observances of the severest sort, and no doubt became a saint, in his own estimation. [Please select]
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He slipped back to thinking and dreaming in the vernacular, and mechanically followed the lama's ceremonial observances at eating, drinking, and the like. [Please select]
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As far as religious observances were concerned, he was an unadulterated heathen, and was all the more to be congratulated on being a heathen of genial tendencies. [Please select]
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