Historically the soothsayers have been priests and therefore smart, know the human psyche and the deepest yearnings of the human being. They have managed to swim and keep the clothes, as we say in Spanish. His portents or omens have always been based on something real and have made them leaving a door open to the destination in the interpretive imagination of human beings. No one could take on face mistakes about the future because they would have misinterpreted the words of the Pythia. Lovers of the riches of this world, though not in appearance or in excess, to not cause mistrust in the village knew relate aggressions against the Guild with divine punishment as with Publius Claudio Pulcher, Roman consul in the first Punic War, who scoffed at a bad omen of the auguries carrying on your boat: the sacred chickens refused to eat. Claudio ordered, then throw them into the sea. "You drink, since they don't want to eat " ( ut biberent, quando esse nollent ) he said, according to Suetonius, and initiated the battle of Drepana against Carthage and was defeated.