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    Auspices

    idea · 4 works · 4 mentions · 6 anchored passages

    auspices · omens · the auspices · the very auspices over which I preside

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    The auspices2 mentions

    On the Commonwealth (Latin) · On the Nature of the Gods (Latin)

    Then—that whereby we hold today, with great safety to the commonwealth—Romulus paid the utmost heed to the auspices.
    book 2

    in the texts

    On the CommonwealthHellenistic · Latin

    The religious practice of observing bird-signs, treated as a founding institution of the Roman state

    Then—that whereby we hold today, with great safety to the commonwealth—Romulus paid the utmost heed to the auspices.
    book 2
    Having won this glory, he is said first to have thought of founding the city under the auspices and of establishing a commonwealth.
    book 2
    And the same Pompilius, having discovered greater auspices, added two augurs to the former number, and set five pontiffs from the number of the leading men over the sacred rites;
    book 2

    On the Nature of the GodsHellenistic · Latin

    The Roman religious practice of divination from omens, over which Cicero notes he personally presides.

    "A courtesan refuses to take money from a lover who loves her" — but that men should be present, should learn, should take note of what is to be thought concerning religion, piety, holiness, ceremonies, good faith and the oath, concerning temples, shrines, and solemn sacrifices, and concerning the very auspices over which I preside (for all these matters bear upon this inquiry into the immortal gods):
    book 1

    Institutes of Roman LawClassical · English

    The Roman practice of observing omens (auspices) as a religious practice surviving in historical Rome as a trace of primitive religious law.

    In primitive Rome the pleading (actio) of the litigant in a civil suit is a religious chant, every word and cadence of which must be learnt from the priest;
    4 early religious law fas the leges regiae the sec

    CyropaediaClassical · Greek

    Omens and auspices are signs that should govern decisions about danger because divine knowledge exceeds human conjecture.

    and if men consult them, they reveal to those to whom they are propitious what they ought to do and what they ought not to do.
    chapter 1
    never go into any danger either to yourself or to your army contrary to the omens or the auspices, and bear in mind that men choose lines of action by conjecture and do not know in the least from which of them success will come.
    chapter 1