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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.
An augur was a priest and official in the classical Roman world. His main role was the practice of augury , the interpretation of the will of the gods by studying events he observed within a predetermined sacred space ( templum ).
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. When the individual, known as the augur, read these signs, it was referred to as
It seems like augur is the religious official, and auspice is the prophetic sign. Therefore, the augur read the auspices. Maybe somebody else will know whether the two articles should be merged. AGK 22:43, 11 December 2013 (UTC) AGK is right - an augur is a person, an auspice is a sign. There is no need to merge these articles.
Occasionally, the authority of the consuls was temporarily superseded by the appointment of a dictator, who held greater imperium than that of the consuls. [1] By tradition, these dictators laid down their office upon the completion of the task for which they were nominated, or after a maximum period of six months, and did not continue in office longer than the year for which the nominating ...
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Lucius Calpurnius Piso (also known to contemporaries as Lucius Calpurnius Piso the Augur) (died AD 24) was a Roman senator who was appointed consul in 1 BC as the colleague of Cossus Cornelius Lentulus Gaetulicus. [1]