Salve Favoni

True enough, all historical arguments are mere opinions made by conjectures from a given set of facts. Or as Cicero put it, "When thereto there has been added reason and logical proof and an innumerable multitude of facts, then comes the clear perception of all these things, and also this same reasoning having been made complete by these stages finally attains wisdom." An historical argument is made by setting your information in a logical order, each step supporting the other in order to draw a reasonable conclusion. Even a reasonable conclusion is not always true however, since we can never be certain. "How can anyone be so certain," as Livy said, "of things so ancient." The information I used for my reasoned opinion was drawn from Roman sources. What I ask of you is to provide at least one verifiable fact that supports the claims made in the past by modern scholars as to an Etruscan origin of all Roman rites. To me the Romans were rather clear in distinguishing their rites from those of Etruscans, and clear on what they did borrow from the Etruscans. The discilina Etrusca referred specifically to haruspicy and not to the Latin practice of augury. So if you wish to follow the opinion of modern scholars who try to overturn the opinion held by Romans themselves, what verifiable information do you base this conjecture on?