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noun - a soothsayer of ancient Rome
ARUSPICES - In the religion of Ancient Rome, a haruspex (plural haruspices; also called aruspex) was a person trained to practice a form of divination called har...
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In the religion of Ancient Rome, a haruspex (plural haruspices; also called aruspex) was a person trained to practice a form of divination called haruspicy (haruspicina), the inspection of the entrails (extahence also extispicy (extispicium)) of sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrificed sheep and poultry. * The reading of omens specifically from the liver is also known by the Greek term hepatoscopy (also hepatomancy). * The Roman concept is directly derived from Etruscan religion, as one of the three branches of the disciplina Etrusca. Such methods continued to be used well into the Middle Ages, especially among Christian apostates and pagans, with Thomas Becket apparently consulting both an aruspex and a chiromancer prior to a royal expedition against Brittany.The Latin terms haruspex, haruspicina are from an archaic word haru "entrails, intestines" (cognate with hernia "protruding viscera", and hira "empty gut"; PIE *er-) and from the root spec- "to watch, observe". Th |