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An augur with sacred chicken; he holds a lituus, the curved wand often used as a symbol of augury on Roman coins. Augury was a Greco-Roman religion practice of observing the behavior of birds, to receive omens.
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Only some species of birds (aves augurales) could yield valid signs [21] whose meaning would vary according to the species. Among them were ravens , woodpeckers , owls , ossifragae , and eagles .
"Auguries of Innocence" is a poem by William Blake, from a notebook of his known as the Pickering Manuscript. [1] It is assumed to have been written in 1803, but was not published until 1863 in the companion volume to Alexander Gilchrist's biography of Blake.
Ornithomancy (modern term from Greek ornis "bird" and manteia "divination"; in Ancient Greek: οἰωνίζομαι "take omens from the flight and cries of birds") is the practice of reading omens from the actions of birds followed in many ancient cultures including the Greeks, and is equivalent to the augury employed by the ancient Romans.
The Etruscan word phersu, meaning "mask," "masked man," or even possibly "actor," since in Greek and Roman plays the actors always wore masks to show what sort of characters were being impersonated. [2]: 40 Scholars debate that the phersu painted in this scene is an actor costumed to impersonate an executioner. It is said that when the Romans ...
James Parton (1912–2001) was a grandson of the English-born American biographer James Parton (1822–1891). He was the founder, publisher and co-owner of the magazines American Heritage and Horizon, and was appalled by the perceived permissiveness of Webster's Third, published in 1961.
The Pat Hobby Stories is a collection of short stories by American writer F. Scott Fitzgerald.The 17 stories were originally published by Arnold Gingrich of Esquire magazine between January 1940 and May 1941, [1] [2] and later collected in one volume in 1962.