It must be remarked in general, that the Roman auspices were essentially of a practical nature; they gave no information respecting the course of future ...
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An auspice (Latin: auspicium from auspex , literally "one who looks at birds") is a type of omen already familiar to the king of Alasia in Cyprus who, in the Amarna correspondence (fourt...
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The very power of the Sibylline Books in Roman society, illustrates just how seriously the relationship between Roman and the spiritual world was taken. No official state business was every really held without the taking of omens and/auspices (auspices: signs from birds).
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All in all the Roman army consisted of 18 centuries of equites, 82 centuries of the first class (of which 2 centuries were engineers), 20 centuries each of the second, third and fourth classes and 32 centuries of the fifth class (of which 2 centuries were trumpeters).
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Chapter VII.—Argument:  That the Roman Auspices and Auguries Have Been Neglected with Ill Consequences, But Have Been Observed with Good Fortune. ... “Nor yet by chance (for I would venture in the meantime even to take for granted the point in debate, and so to err on the safe side) have our ancestors succeeded in...
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