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haruspicum

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

Found 43 times in the Latin texts on Socratos.

Where it is used

Cicero, In Catilinam 3.9: … am primum mitterent; pedestris sibi copias non defuturas. Lentulum autem sibi confirmasse ex fatis Sibyllinis haruspicumque responsis se esse tertium illum Cornelium ad quem regnum huius urbis atque imperium pervenire esset necess …

Pliny the Younger, Epistulae 9.39.1: Haruspicum monitu reficienda est mihi aedes Cereris in praediis in melius et in maius, vetus sane et angusta, cum sit alioqui stato die frequentissima.

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.