augur
noun
in ancient Rome, any of a group of officials charged with observing and interpreting omens for guidance in public affairs.
augurship
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a word derived from
augur.
Example Sentences
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M. 9 One of the seven priests who presided over the feasts appointed in honour of Jupiter and the other gods, an office, as appears, of high dignity, since Pliny ranks it with the augurship.
From The Letters of Pliny the Younger by William Melmoth
Then, after various questions to Atticus, comes that great one as to the augurship, of which so much has been made by Cicero's enemies, "quo quidem uno ego ab istis capi possim."
From The Life of Cicero Volume One by Anthony Trollope
You have said, that you retired in my favour from the contest for the augurship.
From The Orations of Marcus Tullius Cicero, Volume 4 by Marcus Tullius Cicero
Pliny obtained the augurship, probably in 103 or 104, in succession to Sex.
From The Student's Companion to Latin Authors by George Middleton
Because he jokes about the augurship, we are told how miserably base he was, and how ready to sell his country!
From The Life of Cicero Volume II. by Anthony Trollope
