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Some time around 282 BC, a diplomatic insult formally "accepted as omen" was turned against Tarentum and helped justify its conquest.
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Unlike prodigies, bad omina were never expiated by public rites but could be reinterpreted, redirected or otherwise averted. In the religions of ancient Rome, an omen, plural omina, was a sign intimating the future, considered less important to the community than a prodigium but of great importance to the person who heard or saw it.