auspex

IPA: ˈɔspɛks

noun

  • (historical) An officiating priest in Ancient Rome.
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Examples of "auspex" in Sentences

  • The Baneblade is also equipped with an auspex.
  • [14] Latin _auspicium_, from _auspex_, a bird seer.
  • Their clan disciplines are Auspex, Celerity and Potence.
  • coniugis et castris et solio generi50 optatum celebrare diem! me iungeret auspex
  • Is Teucer called auspex, as taking the auspices, like an augur, or as giving the auspices, like a god?
  • The English noun "auspice," which originally referred to this practice of observing birds to discover omens, also comes from Latin "auspex."
  • There are objections to both interpretations; a Roman imperator was not called auspex, though he was attended by an auspex, and was said to have the auspicia; auspex is frequently used of one who, as we should say, inaugurates an undertaking, but only if he is a god or a deified mortal.

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