Hydromancy is the supposed art of divining by water. The Persians, according to Varro, invented it; Pythagoras and Numa Pompilius made use of it; and we still admire the like wonderful prognosticators.
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Hydromancy
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11 translations across 7 languages.
Finnish
1 entries- hydromantia noun (divination by water or other liquid)
French
1 entries- hydromancie noun (divination by water or other liquid)
Italian
1 entries- idromanzia noun (divination by water or other liquid)
Latin
1 entries- hydromantīa noun (divination by water or other liquid)
Middle English
4 entries- hidromancy noun (divination by water or other liquid)
- idromance noun (divination by water or other liquid)
- idromancie noun (divination by water or other liquid)
- ydromance noun (divination by water or other liquid)
Middle French
1 entries- hydromancie noun (divination by water or other liquid)
Old French
1 entries- hydromancie noun (divination by water or other liquid)
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Hydromancy was extensively practised by the Egyptian priests and sorcerers[.]
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Hydromancy, like many other methods of divination, seems to have originated in Babylonia and reached the Greco-Roman world via Egypt, in the first century b.c. or earlier.
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