Crossword-Solution: ARUSPEX
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Aruspex | n. | One of the class of diviners among the Etruscans and Romans, who foretold events by the inspection of the entrails of victims offered on the altars of the gods. |
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| Soothsayer, old style. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEAER
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greedy person
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Sentences with ARUSPEX (5)
Hic amor, hoc studium; dum sacra secundus aruspex Nuntiet, ac lucos vocet hostia pinguis in altos.] and, the unmanliest part of all, you are grateful for receiving your own.
The aruspex is said to have shown to Decius the head of the liver wounded on the side relating to himself, in other respects the victim was acceptable to the gods; whilst Manlius obtained highly favourable omens from his sacrifice.
For Papirius the dictator, returning to Rome in order to take the auspices anew, in consequence of a caution received from the aruspex, left strict orders with the master of the horse to remain in his post, and not to engage in battle during his absence.
There is, however, a kind of poisoning which, to do thee justice, comes before thee with all its horrors, and which thou wouldst punish capitally, even in such a sacred personage as an aruspex or diviner: I mean the poisoning by incantation.
The story runs that Camillus, having carried his _cuniculus_ under the Temple of Juno within the citadel, overheard the Etruscan _aruspex_ declare to the king of Veii that victory would rest with him who completed the sacrifice.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1966).