aruspices
- plural of aruspex.
Example Sentences
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To expiate the other prodigies, a supplication was performed; the ox was ordered by the aruspices to be carefully preserved and fed.
From The History of Rome, Books 27 to 36 by Livius, Titus
These prodigies were expiated by victims of the larger kind, according to the response of the aruspices; and a supplication was ordered to all the deities who had shrines at Rome.
From The History of Rome, Books 09 to 26 by Livius, Titus
The business of aruspices was to look upon the beasts offered in sacrifices, and by them to divine the success of any enterprise.
From Roman Antiquities, and Ancient Mythology For Classical Schools (2nd ed) by Dillaway, Charles K.
Previous to the speech as to the "aruspices," he had defended Sextius—or Sestius, as he is frequently called—on a charge brought against him by Clodius in respect of violence.
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Trollope, Anthony
As the vessel bearing the holy stone came up the Tiber it grounded at the foot of the Aventine, when the aruspices declared that only chaste hands would be able to move it.
From Walks in Rome by Hare, Augustus J. C.
