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
Cato, the Censor, is on record as saying "that he wondered how one haruspex could look another in the face without laughing!"
From Wind and Weather by Alexander McAdie
The complicated art of augury might in fact be dispensed with if you had a haruspex ready and willing at a moment's notice to give you a good report of the victim's liver.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
Thereupon, Roman haruspex looked into the eyes of Roman haruspex, and they both laughed.
From The House of Mystery An Episode in the Career of Rosalie Le Grange, Clairvoyant by Will Irwin
Thy hallowed augurs can divine Whate'er dark song the birds of omen sing; Of augury thou art the king, And thy wise haruspex finds meaning fit For what the gods have in the victims writ.
From The Elegies of Tibullus Being the Consolations of a Roman Lover Done in English Verse by Theodore C. Williams
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
"Am I to be frightened," he said, in answer to some report of the haruspices, "because a sheep is without a heart?"
From Caesar: a Sketch by James Anthony Froude
The altar had been erected, the swine sacrificed, and the augurs and haruspices on both sides had predicted nothing but amity and concord.
From The Tenants of Malory Volume 3 of 3 by Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu
In his character of Pontifex Maximus he restored pagan temples, and directed that the haruspices should be consulted.
From History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) Revised Edition by John William Draper
The haruspices were again on the spot and gave the same report; and then, solutis religione animis, the centuries sanctioned the war.
From The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus by W. Warde Fowler
