I pretend to believe her, and we laughed like two augurs meeting each other alone.
The number of praetors, questors, pontiffs, and augurs was augmented.
Hence is explained the origin of the name given to the Capitol: in digging the foundation of the temple, they found a human head; and the augurs declared that Rome would become the head of all Italy.
Who does not see clearly that the vice of the dictator (Marcellus) in the eyes of the augurs was that he was a plebeian?
After the example of the senate the number of the augurs and pontiffs also was doubled, so that each college consisted of four members, two being taken from the Ramnes and two from the Tities.
With this we must connect a passage from the tenth book of Livy, where he says that the augurs were to represent the three tribes.
And as this last became the peculiar characteristic of the art of public divination, and as the augurs were, like the pontifices, a close self-electing corporation until 104 B.
For this and the augurs generally, see Lecture XII.
The state religion could not soothe it; neither pontifices nor augurs had any sufficient native remedy for it, and as the ritual of worship was reinforced from Greece and the East, so the ritual of divination was reinforced from Etruria.
Augurs and auspicia become politically important, but cease to belong to religion.
The augurs were skilled advisers of the magistrates, but could not themselves take the auspices.
The best account of the constitutional power of the augursis in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encyclopädie, s.
It augurs ill for a man's hold of the word if the word does not hold him.
It augurs healthy spiritual life when opposition and danger neither make cheeks blanch with fear nor flush with anger.
These soothsayers or augurs begin with prophesying in favor of the heads of the nation; they afterwards prophesy for themselves and obtain a share in the government.
The clearest evidence of this is the fact, that in the communities organized on the Latin scheme augursand Pontifices occur everywhere (e.
Augurs--Pontifices Under the Roman constitution and that of the Latin communities in general there were originally but two such colleges; that of the augurs and that of the Pontifices.
Roman augurs had to be divisible by three, and so must have had an odd number as its basis.
The statements regarding the original number of the augursin particular vary.
If the hinder portion is larger than the front one, it augurs an excellent harvest.
This augurswell for the future of your activities, especially during the Ten Year Plan just launched.
Tarquin, surprised at this strange conduct of the woman, consulted the augurs what to do; they, regretting the loss of the books which had been destroyed, advised the king to give the price required.
Romulus built him a temple without the walls of the city, the augurs being of opinion that the god of fire ought not to be admitted within.
When the augursreported that an ox had spoken, which we often meet with among the ancient prodigies, the Senate was presently to sit, sub dio, or in the open air.
The business of the augurs or soothsayers was to interpret dreams, oracles, prodigies, &c.
The help of delegates, priests, and augurs having proved unavailing, that of women was next sought.
Only the augurs consulted them, and the word of the augurs had to be taken for what they revealed.
It may be that the augurs themselves invented all that they told, for the books at length perished in the flames, and no man knows what secret lore they really contained.
The king sent for the augurs of the court, told them what had happened, and asked what he should do.
The augurs were consulted, but none of them could explain it.
The augurs consulted the gods to see if these holy places could safely be removed, to make room for the new temple.
It had formerly been the privilege of the augurs to fill up the vacancies in their own college, but the right had been transferred to the people.
If the augurs declare by the flight of birds that such a thing should be done, let it be done, although he who has to act in the matter has no belief in the birds.
Lælius had made for himself a name among augurs for excellence.
Efforts were repeatedly made to bring him to Rome, and he tells Atticus in irony that if he is wanted there simply as an augur, the augurs have nothing to do with the opening of temples.
A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens.
These were not the superstitions of the populace; the republic supported six augurs charged with predicting the future.
The Etruscan priests who called themselves haruspices or augurs had rules for predicting the future.
Again, the sacred priests and augurs were deputed to make the petition, this time in the name of the gods of the people; but, alas, they too entreated in vain.
If the sun dies in the west without clouds, if the luminous spider shows itself in the western sky, it augurs for the morrow a fine morning and a fine day.
The pontific college with theiraugurs and flamens.
His chief luxury was a favorite horse, which would allow no one but Caesar to mount him; a horse which had been bred in his own stables, and, from the peculiarity of a divided hoof, had led the augurs to foretell wonders for the rider of it.
He went on to the Curia, and the senators said to themselves that the augurshad foretold his fate, but he would not listen; he was doomed for his "contempt of religion.
Immense as was the loss of the volumes, considering their influence over the minds of the people, the Augurs and Senate hoped to replace the loss.
The spirit of devotion and consecration of the German Believers, and its National Assembly, augurs well for the future of the Faith in your country.
Then he put the chew of tobacco in his mouth, a sign which augurs ill for his opponents, and pitched a low one to the batter, a perfect ball to bunt.
They are moving about restlessly, and the next two hitters are swinging their bats in anticipation with a vigor which augurs ill for the pitcher.
He augurs the worst effects from the policy of permitting almost unrestricted intercourse with the enemy's country in time of war.
This, I think, augurs well, for bad news flies fast.
Fifteen learned and experienced augurs observed the phenomena of nature and studied the flight of birds as a means of directing the actions of the state.
The augurs and haruspices were summoned to immediate duty; and everything was done to ascertain the will of the gods and to do their bidding.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "augurs" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
