Kipsikis. Anthropomancy Augur Auspice /həˈrʌ.spɛks/ hə-RUH-spehks, plural haruspices /həˈrʌ.spɪˌsiz/ hə-RUH-spih-sees, also called aruspex /həˈrʌ.spɪˌsiː/...

Historically, viscera of animals were examined by Roman pagan priests like the haruspices or the augurs in order to divine the future by their shape, dimensions...

animals. For this reason, it represents a small "instruction manual" for a haruspice. The object was found in 1877 and is kept in the Civic Museum of Piacenza...

lunar. Before any campaign or battle, Roman commanders took auspices, or haruspices, to seek the gods' opinion regarding the likely outcome. Military success...

hermaphrodite prompted an elaborate series of expiations: on the advice of the haruspices, the child was enclosed in a chest, carried out to sea, and allowed to...

acolytes. Specialists from the religious colleges and professionals such as haruspices and oracles were available for consultation. In household cult, the paterfamilias...

is windy and was usually the site of rites of divination performed by haruspices. The senate in the end sent a delegation composed of ten members with...

of sacrifice and divination in an attempt to predict the future. The haruspices were unable to read the entrails of the sacrificed animals and blamed...

temple to Venus be sited according to rules laid down by the Etruscan haruspices, and built "near to the gate" of the city, where it would be less likely...

and at the same time rehabilitated the old Roman soothsayers (known as haruspices) as a replacement. He was especially hard on Druidism, because of its...

revives the censorship and ludi saeculares, and organises the order of the Haruspices, with 60 members. Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo is made commander of the Roman...

elected Kogi governor for second term". The Guardian. 18 November 2019. Haruspice, Abdullahi Haruna (29 May 2020). "Nigeria: Governor Yahaya Bello - an...

traditional date in the 8th century BC. It was the view of the Etruscan haruspices that a temple of Vulcan should be located outside the city, and the Vulcanal...

beyond the names of members, but these are often of considerable interest. Haruspices and Luperci were of equestrian rank. Our information as to these is not...

Senate, who in turn consulted the pontifex maximus, the pontifices and the haruspices to determine whether the matter must be tried or dismissed. Expiation...

(On his House) (57 BC) De Haruspicum Responsis (On the Responses of the Haruspices) (56 BC) De Provinciis Consularibus (On the Consular Provinces) (55 BC)...

adopted key elements of the Etruscan religion, which were perpetuated by haruspices and noble Roman families who claimed Etruscan descent, long after the...

"divine consultations" by augurs are known as "taking the auspices". Haruspices examined the liver, lungs and entrails of animals sacrifice to interpret...

sacrifice-divination through inspection of the sacrificial victim's liver—haruspices—during the Orientalizing period of archaic Greek culture. Plato notes...

and their advice was sought concerning reforms of the discipline of the haruspices. During the Kingdom of Roman history, the pontiffs were primarily concilia...

did not end. After a series of prodigies forced the senate to consult haruspices, Clodius with his authority as a quindecimvir sacris faciundis gave speeches...

Political, military and civil actions were sanctioned by augury and by haruspices. Historically, augury was performed by priests of the college of augurs...

consulted until late antiquity; in the 4th century, for instance, the haruspices consulted the books of Tarquitius before the battle that proved fatal...

was struck by a lightning bolt: its head was nowhere to be seen. The haruspices announced that it had been hurled into the Tiber River, where indeed it...

divination was undertaken in Roman society by priestly officials called haruspices. The religious texts recording the revelations of Tages (and a few other...

date De Haruspicum Responsis On the Responses of the Haruspices Cicero discusses the haruspices. Cicero 57 BCE De Lege Agraria contra Rullum Opposing...

out. Her horse was also found dead and stripped of its trappings. The haruspices (manteis) immediately connected the incident to a disgrace among the Vestals...

tradition, such as the collections of their rites or the practice of haruspice. Their tablets were copied and transmitted "from the man who knows to...

instigation either of a 'heavenly voice' heard on the Mons Albanus, or of the haruspices. Livy also says that it became the longstanding practice in Rome that...

derived from Tarchuna, and even in imperial times a collegium of sixty haruspices continued to exist there. The emergence of Tarchuna as a trading power...