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In Roman practice, inherited from the Etruscans, a haruspex (plural haruspices ) was a man trained to practise a form of divination called haruspicy , hepatoscopy or hepatomancy . Haruspicy ...
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The Etruscan language was spoken and written by the Etruscan civilization in the ancient region of Etruria (modern Tuscany plus western Umbria and northern Latium) and in parts of Lombardy, Veneto, ...
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Etruscan religion, unlike Greek and Roman, ... Its sections corresponded to the abodes of the gods in the sky, and thus the haruspex distinguishing the favourable and inimical part of the liver and paying attention to the slightest irregularities was able to establish which gods were angry, which favourable or neutral,
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spirare "to breathe" Latin [rc 229] of Etruscan origin? ... stilus "pen" Latin via Etruscan, originally Greek [g/lb 85: 83] ... subarra Latin of Etruscan origin [lrp 57] ; Subura "Etruscan quarter of Rome", [lb 90, mp 75] see Sybaris (Greek city) [htb]
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that he was induced to become a candidate for his first consulship, not by the impulse of his talents, but primarily by the utterances of an Etruscan haruspex;
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Haruspex: A priest in ancient Rome who practiced divination by the inspection of the entrails of animals. ... that he was induced to become a candidate for his first consulship, not by the impulse of his talents, but primarily by the utterances of an Etruscan -haruspex-;
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This doctrine was known to the Romans as the disciplina etrusca, From the writings of the Etruscan haruspex Tarquitius around 90 BCE, we also get a glimpse of the prophesy of the nymph Vegoia (Latinised form of the name).
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She posits a Roman counterpart to the Etruscan haruspices (p. 9) and suggests 'a renown for their expertise in the interpretation of prodigies'. Just three pages later she maintains the 'traditional haruspex' (is he Etruscan or Roman?) consults entrails in times of crisis.
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Cato made it an instruction to his steward, “that he was not to present any offering, or to allow any offering to be presented on his behalf, without the knowledge and orders of his master, except at the domestic hearth and on the wayside-altar at the Compitalia, and that he should consult no -haruspex-, -hariolus-,
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