Sentence example with the word 'aruspices'

aruspices

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HARUSPICES, or Aruspices (perhaps "entrail observers," cf.   [Please select]

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)--This oration on the reply of the Aruspices is of May, June, or July, 698.   [Please select]

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Suetonius writes of the horse of Julius Cæsar that it had almost human feet, with toes ("pedibus prope humanis, et in modum digitorum ungulis fissis"), from which the aruspices prognosticated to Cæsar the empire of the world; this horse, like Bucephalus, and every heroic courser, would bear no other rider than its master--the great conqueror.   [Please select]

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