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

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 McAdie, Alexander

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 Fowler, W. Warde

Even Cato,91 the leader of the orthodox, national, and conservative party, expressed his surprise that a haruspex, when meeting a colleague, did not burst out laughing.

From Lectures on The Science of Language by Müller, Max