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Авгуры и жертвоприношения животных
This article deals with ambegna bos, lexical unit, which occurs in Varro's work De lingua Latina (7.31) as a sample of the augurs' professional language. As Varro explained it, its usage means the participation of the augurs in public ritual of animal sacrifice, which was controlled by the pontifices. The fact of intersection of duties among the pontifices and the augurs in this situation reflects the desire of the Roman aristocracy not to admit anybody to concentrate the power (religious as well as political) in course of the establishment of the new political regime (res publica), which replased the prevoius one - regnum. On these grounds we can consider that Varro's information goes back to the most ancient layer of the Roman sacral tradition.