Uploaded February 2026 | Updated September 2026, 3 weeks ago

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Before battles, Roman generals often trusted divination—examining the guts of sacrificial animals—to predict victory. But according to the historian Livy, one Roman victory was decided in a far stranger way. In this video, we unpack Livy’s bizarre (and possibly exaggerated) story of how Rome conquered the Etruscan city of Veii not through in battle, but through timing, deception, and a very literal grab for the guts.

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