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haruspices

haruspices is a Latin form of haruspex, meaning “soothsayer who read the entrails of victims”. It is the nominative plural masculine noun.

Found 66 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In C. Verrem 2.2.27: comites illi tui delecti manus erant tuae; praefecti, scribae, accensi, medici, haruspices, praecones manus erant tuae; ut quisque te maxime cognatione adfinitate necessitudine aliqua attingebat, ita …

Cicero, De Divinatione 2.37: … t, et erit aliquid, quod aut ex nihilo oriatur aut in nihilum subito occidat. quis hoc physicus dixit umquam? Haruspices dicunt. His igitur quam physicis credendum potius existumas?

Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 15.4.3.1: Concúrrite omnes aúgures, harúspices!

All forms of haruspex (declension table)

Source: Socratos (socratos.org), a free reader for Ancient Greek and Latin. Grammar from the Perseus Treebank and Morpheus; dictionary entries from Lewis & Short, A Latin Dictionary (Perseus Digital Library, CC BY-SA). Counts are from the texts on Socratos.