no, no.  offer the grain first.  sprinkle it on the altar.  lucinnius obeys.
 and we can't ask the gods specific questions like that.  it's a gentle, probing enquiry.  general questions.  but let's see. he cuts into the chicken liver and prods around the in- side. the other two wait in silence.
general answer.  no.  *
i mean, no. the liver says no.
if you want to do it again, you need another chicken and another fifteen sesterces.  and i'd like the first fifteen now please. hector looks a lucinnius, who nods reluctantly. hector opens his purse and counts out the coins for hermas.