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[14] Latin _auspicium_, from _auspex_, a bird seer.
Early European History Hutton Webster
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Haud aequom facit qui quod didicit id dediscit. an periclitamini quid animi habeam? sed quid huc vos revortimini tam cito? an te auspicium commoratum est an tempestas continet 690 qui non abiisti ad legiones, ita uti dudum dixeras?
Amphitryo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Bacchides, Captivi Amphitryon, The Comedy of Asses, The Pot of Gold, The Two Bacchises, The Captives Titus Maccius Plautus 1919
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Shakespeare coined the word "inauspicious," riffing on the Latin auspicium, the art of telling the future by observing the flights of birds: "And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars."
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Shakespeare coined the word "inauspicious," riffing on the Latin auspicium, the art of telling the future by observing the flights of birds: "And shake the yoke of inauspicious stars."
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(pr鎑icante Paulino, cuius supra meminimus) suscepit: cui videlic鑤 regi in auspicium suscipiend� fidei, & regni coelestis potestas
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Punic war, though himself an "augur optimus," according to Cicero, declined to act upon an _auspicium ex acuminibus_ -- electric sparks seen at the end of the soldiers 'spears -- and was accustomed to ride in his litter with blinds drawn, so that he should not see any evil omen. [
The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884
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Paulino, cuius supra meminimus) suscepit: cui videlicèt regi in auspicium suscipiendæ fidei, & regni coelestis potestas & terrem creuerat imperij: ita vt (quod nemo Anglorum ante eum fecit) omnes Britanniæ fines, qua vel ipsorum vel Britonum Prouinciæ habitabantur, sub ditione acceperit.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 01 Richard Hakluyt 1584
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