haruspex , also: aruspex

The haruspex stood in the doorway, motioning them to come.

The band's name is based on a deliberate misspelling of haruspex.

Otherwise, the haruspex tells him, the sacrifice is entirely acceptable to the gods.

He wears the pointed metal cap of a haruspex, a seer.

He includes a sweet young woman who believes she is a haruspex (a reader of entrails).

A second, older haruspex with a beard listens and is labeled avl tarchunus.

The master haruspex eventually declared that this failure was the result of interruptions in the process caused by profane men.

The one who had been there was both necromancer and haruspex, and his recent studies were still spread out on the iron-rock.

Perhaps The Mail et al have confused the role of meteorologist with that of the augur or haruspex.

Victoria and the Haruspex (2002)

Figurine of Haruspex, 4th Cent.

Spurinna, the haruspex who warned Julius Caesar about the Ides of March.

The Roman biographer Suetonius identifies the "seer" as a haruspex named Spurinna.

A haruspex interpreted fulgura (thunder and lightning) and exta (entrails) by observatio.

Further evidence has been found of haruspices in Bath, England where the base of a statue dedicated by a haruspex named Memor.

A portentum is a kind of sign interpreted by a haruspex, not an augur, and by means of coniectura rather than observatio.

Lucius Marcius Memor, a lazy, greedy, obese haruspex (soothsayer)

That old saying by Cato is quite well known; he said he was surprised that one haruspex didn't burst out laughing when he saw another one.

Each camp had its own religious personnel; standard bearers, priestly officers and their assistants, including a haruspex, and housekeepers of shrines and images.

The reverse of a 3rd century BC bronze mirror from Tuscania depicts a youthful haruspex in a conical hat examining a liver.

In ancient Etruria and Rome, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haruspicy (performed by an haruspex), in which the sacrifice was an animal.

The elder was a haruspex, who learned his art from Tyrrhenus, and was probably the founder of Tarquinia and the Etruscan League.

It was known for its oracle and healing power long before the Romans came and set up their huge temple there, with its official haruspex, the State diviner.