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did not have an established status as a concept and practice. There are only three known uses of this, separated by centuries and of doubtful authenticity, and of those, two don't involve opening the Iliad at random and randomly choosing a passage, as is established in bibliomancy, and in
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specifically. Rather, they involve the person dreaming or thinking about the passage, as occurred with
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104:The "Homer Oracle", or
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249:The British Library
71:battle of Pharsalus
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546:Rhabdomancy
422:Aspidomancy
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336:Ailuromancy
329:Theriomancy
188:: 134–153.
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886:Categories
839:literature
795:Revelation
758:Numerology
721:Apparition
603:Mediumship
590:Necromancy
501:Cartomancy
483:Cleromancy
473:Hydromancy
463:Capnomancy
442:Oculomancy
356:Myrmomancy
318:divination
315:Methods of
182:Antichthon
117:References
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726:Astrology
716:Apophenia
671:Rumpology
666:Podomancy
661:Palmistry
511:Favomancy
496:Belomancy
468:Aeromancy
458:Pyromancy
451:Elemental
204:0066-4774
790:Prophecy
763:Gematria
741:Geomancy
646:Haruspex
620:Taghairm
541:Opon Ifá
351:Myomancy
255:5 August
229:5 August
130:Achilles
800:Ecstasy
780:Onmyodo
747:I Ching
692:African
516:Kumalak
437:Dowsing
414:Scrying
389:Falnama
267:Sources
805:Vision
785:Oracle
708:Sikidy
608:Séance
563:Sortes
557:Sikidy
521:Mengdu
404:Virgil
346:Augury
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151:Latona
134:Phthia
67:Pompey
63:Brutus
43:sortes
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685:Other
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384:Bible
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