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	BBC - History - Roman Religion Gallery
		They were drawn from members of the ruling class of Rome, and were organised in 'colleges' and sub-groups with particular functions.
		For example, there were pontifices (pontiffs), augurs (associated with interpretation of auspices - signs given by the gods through the flight of birds, thunder, lightning, and other natural phenomena), haruspices (originally of Etruscan origin, consulted about prodigies), flamines or individual gods, and fetiales, associated with the declaration of war.
		The chief priest was known as the pontifex maximus, a title that was subsequently used by Roman Catholic popes.
	www.bbc.co.uk /history/ancient/romans/roman_religion_gallery_04.shtml (217 words)

	Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, page 587 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		that the haruspices were instituted by Romulus, and that one was chosen from each tribe, is opposed to all the other authorities, and is manifestly incorrect.
		24) ; but by this we are probably to understand not a magister collegii, but merely the most eminent of the haruspices at the time.
		The art of the haruspices, which was called liaruspicina, consisted in explaining and interpreting the will of the gods from the appearance of the entrails (exta) of animals offered in sacrifice, whence they are sometimes called extispices, and their art exiispieium (Cic.
	www.ancientlibrary.com /smith-dgra/0594.html (812 words)

	Haruspices from LiveJournal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		And stretching north and south along the shore a row of snow-white cattle bathed in the waves, their knees kicking up the frothing water while the haruspices and their helpers strove to hold the beasts in place through to the end.
		The haruspices in ancient Rome were part of a group of seers or auguries whose official function was not so much to foretell the future as to work out whether the gods approved of some proposed course of political...
		The appearance of a dragon before the Emperor was always a very auspicious sign, and all the abyss-gazers, augerers, and haruspices of the court immediately set to work to try and find what this stroke of great luck might signify.
	www.ljseek.com /search/Haruspices (712 words)

	CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Constantine the Great
		The one thing he did was to suppress divination and magic; this the heathen emperors had also at times sought to do.
		Thus, in 320, the emperor forbade the diviners or haruspices to enter a private house under pain of death.
		Whoever by entreaty or promise of payment persuaded a haruspex to break this law, that man's property should be confiscated and he himself should be burned to death.
	www.newadvent.org /cathen/04295c.htm (5939 words)

	Research Results For Haruspices (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		The Haruspices were priests or soothsayers of Etruscan origin, who foretold events from observing the entrails of animals.
		The Aruspices (Haruspices) were a class of priests in ancient Rome.
		Their job was to foretell the future from the entrails of sacrificial victims.
	www.probertencyclopaedia.com /cgi-bin/res.pl?keyword=Haruspices&offset=0 (104 words)

	The Art of Haruspicy
		"Haruspices" (diviners) from Etruria were consulted privately throughout the history of the Roman Empire.
		The emperor Claudius was a student of Etruscan language and learning, and created a "college" of 60 haruspices that existed until the beginning of the fifth century AD.
		Ancient haruspices didn't use it because you can't make a great public celebration out of the cracking of an egg.
	www.cs.utk.edu /~mclennan/OM/BA/Har.html (3441 words)

	Roman Public Religion; roman history, roman civilization
		By the end of the Republic, the haruspices achieved a level of respect and authority in Rome comparable to the augurs and had some semblance of organization order.
		There were however many "unofficial" haruspices outside the official ordo.
		During the second century BCE, the Romans created a new college of priests charged with supervising the rituals associated with the epulum Iovis (feast of Jupiter) held in conjunction with the Roman games and the Plebeian games.
	abacus.bates.edu /~mimber/Rciv/public.relig.htm (2952 words)

	Etruscan Religion
		It may have been the fact that Etruscan religious beliefs and practices were so deep-rooted among the Romans that led to the complete destruction of all Etruscan literature as a result of the advent of Christianity.
		Arnobius, one of the first Christian apologists, living around 300CE, wrote,"Etruria is the originator and mother of all superstition".When the Gothic army under Alaric was approaching Rome, the offer made to Pope Innocent I by Etruscan Haruspices was seriously considered by the senate, but finally rejected.
		The obvious Eastern Greek influence in Etruscan religion and art from the emergence of the civilisation in the 8th Century CE, can be interpreted either as evidence of the Etruscan origins in Lydia, or as the influence of subsequent Greek settlement in the prosperous region of Etruria.
	www.mysteriousetruscans.com /religion.html (1785 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Andy Fear wrote: > As for Etruscans at least one writer has tried to assimilate Iberian wi= th > Etruscan, both remain undeciphered and both are non-Indo-European, but = to > the best of my knowledge that's as far as the parallels go.
		A shorter introduction to the Etruscan language can be found in _Etruscan Life and Afterlife_, Larissa Bonfante (ed.), Detroit, 1986 in Emeline Richardson's article 'An Archaeological Introduction to the Etruscan Language,' p215-231..
		But to push this thread back into, or forward into Late Antique, Etruscan haruspices seem to have survived longer than one would expect, considering that the 'Etruscans' disappeared under the early Julii dictatores: in 408 CE Etruscan haruspices, after their success at Narni were, with devout reluctance, employed in Rome under Pont.
	omega.cohums.ohio-state.edu /mailing_lists/LT-ANTIQ/Older/1997/ltantiq.971204.03 (351 words)

	Ancient History Sourcebook: Roman Religious Toleration: The Senatus Consultum de Bacchanalibus, 186 BCE.
		When the authority of the gods is held out as a pretext to cover vice, fear enters our minds, lest, in punishing the crimes of men, we may violate some divine right connected therewith.
		Numberless decisions of the pontiffs, decrees of the senate, and even answers of the haruspices free you from religious scruples of this character.
		For they, completely versed in every divine and human law, maintained that nothing tended so strongly to the subversion of religion as sacrifice, when we offered it not after the institutions of our forefathers, but after foreign customs.
	www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/livy39.html (3060 words)

	haruspices - OneLook Dictionary Search
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		Phrases that include haruspices: haruspices or aruspices, or aruspices haruspices
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	LEG II AVG - Roman Living History Society.
		The fighting officers were the Centurio (marine commander) and his Optio.
		Other ship's personnel included remiges (rowers), velarii (responsible for rigging and sails), milites (marines), medici (medics) and haruspices (priests/augurs/soothsayers).
		Mark Hassall stated that there was still no evidence one-way or the other as to whether the milites, velarii and the remiges were interchangeable duties, but logic suggested that they were, since all nautae (sailors) were also milites (marines).
	www.legiiavg.org.uk /military/naval2.html (1237 words)

	The Annals [of Ancient Rome] by Cornelius Tacitus: book 11
		These may still be seen on the tablets of brass set up in the squares and temples, on which new statutes are published.
		Claudius then brought before the Senate the subject of the college of "haruspices," that, as he said, "the oldest of Italian sciences might not be lost through negligence.
		It had often happened in evil days for the State that advisers had been summoned at whose suggestion ceremonies had been restored and observed more duly for the future.
	www.ourcivilisation.com /smartboard/shop/tacitusc/annals/chap11.htm (7571 words)

	Cassiber - Haruspices: Reviews, Audio Clips, and more \|\|\| Music.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
		Cassiber - Haruspices: Reviews, Audio Clips, and more
		Haruspices [+] performed by Cassiber [+] written by Christoph Anders [+], Chris Cutler [+]
		All Music Guide is a registered Trademark of AEC One Stop Group, Inc.
	music.com /performance/haruspices/1 (113 words)

	College of Priests - Haruspices
		AncientWorlds > Rome > The Palatine > Etruria > College of Priests - Haruspices
		Their business was to interpret the signs, to ascertain which deity, if angry, demanded expiation, and to indicate the nature of necessary offerings.
		Generally a sheep’s liver was used and the Haruspices determined the will of their Gods by the color, markings and shape.
	www.ancientworlds.net /50617 (143 words)

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		According to Lactantius, Diocletian had been offering sacrifice one day when some Christians among his attendants made the sign of the cross in order to protect themselves from the demons.
		His haruspices then told Diocletian that the reason why they could not detect the usual signs on the entrails of their victims was the presence of these profane Christians at the ceremony.
		Diocletian was enraged and ordered that all in the palace were to offer sacrifice, and wrote to his commanders that those who refused to offer sacrifice were to be discharged from the army.
	www.ucc.ie /milmart/sergorig.html (13109 words)

	The Sea Monster and the Whirlpool
		The Romans employed a class of Etruscan diviners, Haruspices, who deduced the will of the gods by observing the entrails of sacrificial animals, (which, it has been pointed out, is not unlike obstetricians interpreting intrapartum cardiotocographic traces).
		These entrail observers also interpreted unusual phenomena of nature, especially thunder and lightning, and prescribed appropriate expiatory ceremonies after such events (which again has been likened to prolonged bed rest in hospitals and sanatoria!).
		The Encyclopaedia Britannica describes entrail divining as ‘a most complicated pseudoscience’ and tells us that the Roman Empire maintained a collegium of 60 haruspices; forming not so much a state priesthood, as a body of salaried expert advisers.
	www.friendsinlowplaces.co.uk /sea_monster_and_the_whirlpool.htm (7630 words)

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	Fate Compear Haruspices Minoress Hecatine Montes Surrealistic Biosystematics Availably (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-03)
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	Hooting Yard : To study these writings in their whole extent, to see them in their minute unfoldment, is a work of ...
		FEBRUARY 2005 : Such an exciting month at Hooting Yard that Mr Key had to go and lie down for two months, hence the absence of any entries for March and April.
		Here you can read about bags in the Bible, Rasputin, moths, the Electric Prunes, Muggletonians, haruspices, and both Tiny Enid and Serpentine Claude.
		JANUARY 2005 : We enter the new year with Anubis and Ra, pageantry and ice, Saint Mungo and Agent Hosty, pit vipers on postage stamps, the glove of Ib, The Anatomy Of Melancholy, and the Hooting Yard Gallery Of Goo!
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	The Dinghy
		I am unable to make sense of this turn of events.
		Professional prognosticators, devoted diviners, erudite haruspices, introspective bartenders and yellow journalists canvass the past, the present and the future in order to give order to the time outside the now.
		With great lodes of potentially oracular data, they squat on their prodigious haunches by the fire, looking to see what is beyond the is (the now "is" that exists at THIS SPECIFIC time).
	www.thedinghy.blogspot.com (8250 words)

	Crooked Timber » » Help the Democrats and have fun too!
		Posted by eszter · November 11th, 2004 at 6:30 am
		Do I get a demikudo for finding Sedative Haruspices, or is the fact that Google provides only obsolete links some sort of, I dunno, Real Problem for the Left?
		Posted by Chris Clarke · November 11th, 2004 at 6:42 am
	www.crookedtimber.org /archives/002854.html (2855 words)

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