haruspex
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In ancient times, there would have been some official haruspex charged with picking over the entrails of a sacrificial offering ahead of any important occasion.
From The Guardian ● Jun. 22, 2010
Manlius assisted in bringing the animals selected for victims to the haruspex.
From A Christian But a Roman by Jókai, Mór
The haruspex put the smoking mass in his hands.
From Saint Augustin by O'Sullivan, Vincent
It was a case where neither could say anything to the other, though Cato might wonder quod non rideret haruspex, haruspicem cum vidisset.
From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by Burton, John Hill
We might be told of the early history of Anatomy, when, from the entrails of birds and animals, the haruspex prognosticated the fate of empires and the fortunes of battle.
From Modern Atheism under its forms of Pantheism, Materialism, Secularism, Development, and Natural Laws by Buchanan, James
Hence his every action is scrutinized and picked to bits, as Etruscan haruspices once examined sacrificial livers for a sign of the future.
From Time Magazine Archive
In this case the Sibylline books were not consulted, but Etruscan haruspices were called in, who simply ordered a supplicatio of the new kind, at the pulvinaria.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by Fowler, W. Warde
Evolution, 259.Etruscan haruspices, 31.Eve, stature of, 107.Evil eye, 69.Evolution and dogma, 220.—— cosmic, 258.—— ethical, 258.—— inclusion of man in, 245.—— inorganic, 175.—— organic, 200.Evolution and Ethics, Huxley on, 219, 254.
From Pioneers of Evolution from Thales to Huxley With an Intermediate Chapter on the Causes of Arrest of the Movement by Clodd, Edward
Temples were erected to Thetis, Diana, Flora, etc., and peasants went about dressed up as haruspices and augurs.
Whereupon, the store of haruspices and augurs that feed upon superstitious Rome were brought in—only to furnish mirth for the court and victims for Tiberius.
From Saul of Tarsus A Tale of the Early Christians by Miller, Elizabeth
