Definition of Haruspicy. Meaning of Haruspicy. Synonyms of Haruspicy

- haruspex was a person trained to practise a form of divination called haru****y, the inspection of the entrails of sacrificed animals, especially the...
- definition of augury broadened to include other forms of divination. Haru****y —the examination of animal entrails—was learned from the Etruscans. The...
- were increasingly woven into the magistracies of the cursus honorum. Haru****y was also used in public cult, under the supervision of the augur or presiding...
- treatises on divination (De augurio privato and De extis, the latter covering haru****y) and the interpretation of dreams (De somniis). The literary historian...
- are detailed on the Piacenza Liver, a bronze model of a liver used for haru****y. These inscriptions have been transcribed as Tin Cilens, Tin Θuf and Tinś...
- being through the inspection of the livers of sacrificial animals (see haru****y). There is speculation that astrology of some form appeared in the Sumerian...
- ancient Etruria and Rome, the usual variety of divination from entrails was haru****y (performed by a haruspex), in which the sacrifice was an animal. "Clyde...
- will could be discerned by priests and magistrates, trained in augury, haru****y, oracles and the interpretation of omens. The gods were thought to communicate...
- Piacenza, a bronze model of a liver marked for the Etruscan practice of haru****y. She is placed in House 13.[citation needed] Nancy Thomson De Grummond...
- Liver of Piacenza, a bronze model of a sheep's liver for the purposes of haru****y was discovered in 1877 at Gossolengo just to the south of Piacenza. It...