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
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 John Hill Burton
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
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
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 Max Müller
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 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
No other people in Christendom produces so vast a crop of tin-horn haruspices.
From A Book of Prefaces by H. L. (Henry Louis) Mencken
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
Cæsar was also cautioned by the haruspices, by a dream of his wife, and by his own forebodings, which we have no reason for doubting.
From The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 02 (From the Rise of Greece to the Christian Era) by Charles F. (Charles Francis) Horne
