different between aruspex vs aruspicy

English

Noun

aruspex (plural aruspices)

1. Alternative form of haruspex

Latin

Noun

aruspex m (genitive aruspicis); third declension

1. Alternative form of haruspex

Declension

Third-declension noun.

References

• aruspex in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press
• aruspex in Charlton T. Lewis (1891) An Elementary Latin Dictionary, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aruspex in Gaffiot, Félix (1934) Dictionnaire illustré Latin-Français, Hachette
• aruspex in Harry Thurston Peck, editor (1898) Harper's Dictionary of Classical Antiquities, New York: Harper & Brothers
• aruspex in William Smith et al., editor (1890) A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities, London: William Wayte. G. E. Marindin

English

Noun

aruspicy (uncountable)

1. Alternative form of haruspicy
   • 1828, Barthold Georg Niebuhr, Julius Charles Hare and Connop Thirlwall (translators), The History of Rome, Volume 1, J. Taylor, page 115,

     The East read destiny in the stars, Etruria and Greece in the entrails of victims […] But the peculiar secret of the Etruscans was the interpretation of lightning: this, and all the branches of their aruspicy, were taught in sacerdotal schools …

Related terms

• aruspex
• haruspex

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