haruspex

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

The haruspex put the smoking mass in his hands.

From Saint Augustin by Vincent O'Sullivan

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

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

"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 Etruscan priests who called themselves haruspices or augurs had rules for predicting the future.

From History Of Ancient Civilization by Charles Seignobos

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

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 W. Warde Fowler