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Definition of Haruspex
1. Noun. A soothsayer or priest in Ancient Rome (originally Etruscan) who practiced divination by inspecting entrails. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Haruspex
1. a soothsayer of ancient Rome [n -PICES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Haruspex
Literary usage of Haruspex
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Five Great Skeptical Dramas of History by John Owen (1896)
"The haruspex who from an inspection of the victim's intestines attempted to
foretell coming events was exercising a peculiarly Promethean function. ..."
2. An Introduction to Latin Prose Composition: With a Complete Course of by Charles Anthon (1845)
"will order him to find another condition for his tus, Pherecydes Syrius primus
dico animus homo sum sempi- ternus. — Caesar ab haruspex moneo ne in Africa ..."
3. Western Diptera: Descriptions of New Genera and Species of Diptera from the by Carl Robert Osten-Sacken (1877)
"... haruspex n. sp., S.—Blackish-gray; abdomen black, with *hite cross-bands;
three segments preceding the black ..."
4. Varronianus: A Critical and Historical Introduction to the Ethnography of by John William Donaldson (1852)
"This is probably some shortened form like the Latin grus. haruspex is generally
considered to have been an Etruscan word. Strabo, XVI. p. ..."
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