At this a sudden sign meets their eyes, mighty in augural presage, as the high event taught thereafter, and in late days boding seers prophesied of the omen.
Haruspicy and the augural art were abandoned, and not even the ancient fame of the oracles could save them from falling into irretrievable desuetude.
There was no augural tent pitched on the hills without the city walls, wherefrom to take the auspices.
The signs were originally in the regal period, if we may guess from the word auspicium, only such as birds supplied, and the space in which they were watched for was not complicated by the divisions of the later augural art.
Nor do I propose to go into the minutiae of augural lore, which are not instructive, like those of sacrifice, for our survey of Roman religious experience.
Hence the augural lore was never published, under pressure of public opinion, and neither ancient nor modern scholars have had to waste their time in investigating it.
It is plain that the old augural lore is now treated only as a curiosity, of which the secrecy need no longer be respected.
This mysterious augural lore was preserved in books, like that of the pontifices; and in all probability these books were put together in the same period as the latter, viz.
Footnote 432: The year of this letter has been inferred from the mention of Lentulus's augural banquet.
He brought in also the augural science of his country, which had been only partially known before.
The story runs that Appius broached the question to Tiberius at an augural banquet.
Election to the auguralcollege at this time was effected by co-optation.
The two main streets appear to follow some method of orientation connected with augural science.
Of augural lore we have indeed enough and to spare.
On the Omen-tablet the original text has been cut up into sections and applied piecemeal to different augural phenomena.
We have already noted instances in which genuine historical traditions have been incorporated in the later augural literature, and we need have no hesitation in accepting the historical accuracy of this reference to past events.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "augural" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
