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noun - a soothsayer of ancient Rome
HARUSPEX - 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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| Diviner of old Rome |
| Ancient Roman divinator who inspected entrails |
| In ancient Rome, a priest who interpreted omens by examining the entrails of animals |
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| Oct 29 2017 The Times - Specialist |
| Jul 26 2010 The Telegraph - General Knowledge |
| Mar 7 2007 Eugene Sheffer - King Feature Syndicate |
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| A priest in ancient Rome who practiced divination by the inspection of the entrails of animals. |
| (in ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens by inspecting the entrails of sacrificial animals. |
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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 (exta—hence 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 *ǵʰer-) and from the root spec- "to watch, observe". The Greek ἡπατοσκοπία hēpatoskōpia is from hēpar "liver" and skop- "to examine". |