These omens threw the Romans into despair and filled the minds of the Britons with joy.
These omens encouraged the people, who went cheerfully to the work of building the walls.
The morning of that day seemed full of omens and warnings.
In a thousand signs of birds and beasts, twigs and shadows, Sakamata saw omens of evil.
They believed that omensare the direct intimations of the future vouchsafed by the gods to men.
In like manner omens were drawn from the flight of herons, kingfishers, the Porphyris Samoensis, and flying-foxes, where these creatures were supposed to incarnate the war god.
As to omensderived from dreams see Elsdon Best, "Omens and Superstitious Beliefs of the Maori," Journal of the Polynesian Society, vol.
People who saw their war god in the lizard used to take omens from a lizard before they went forth to fight.
Whenever war was in contemplation, the diviners used to sacrifice animals, generally hogs and fowls, and to draw omens from the manner in which they expired, from the appearance of their entrails, and from other signs.
When a god was believed to be incarnate in a species of birds or animals or fish, omens were naturally drawn from the appearance and behaviour of the creatures.
Omens announcing the death of the Emperor Valens, and a disaster to be inflicted by the Gauls.
Such was the decree of the Ultonians and their wise King, so greatly did they fear concerning those prophecies and omens and concerning the child who in Emain Macha shrieked out of her mother's womb.
No: lay your myrtle garland down; And let a while the willow's crown With luckier omens bind your hair.
My cheerful song With happier omens calls you to the field, 400 Pleased with your generous ardour in the chase, And warm like you.
At any rate, he was not the bridegroom for whom omensfly abroad.
The leaders of very different parties in the civil war, Marius, Octavius, Sulla, coincided in believing omens and oracles.
It seemed to Will that all the omens were good, that, great though the dangers and hardships might be, they would triumph surely in the end.
I accept the omens as you give them," he said aloud.
Lastly, strict attention must be paid to all outward signs of the will of the gods, as shown by omens and portents of various kinds.
How were theomens to be interpreted from which their will might be guessed?
But Horace mentions other animals, wolf, fox, and snake, and some at least of the folklore about omens which is to be found in Pliny's descriptions of animals may help us to appreciate the nature of the old Roman ideas on this subject.
I mean the auspicia of the family religion, and also the comparatively harmless folklore about omens of all sorts and kinds.
That morn many omens had warned him, and he had revealed himself to his faithful men, Eumaeus, and Philoetius the master-herdsman, that they might assist him.
A great belief in dreams and omens was abroad in the land: and nowhere had it a more devoted adherent than in Humphrey, the Saxon serving-man, and nowhere a greater scoffer than in William Lorimer.
But all he said was, "Dost not think him very like an old crone, with his dreams and his omens and his charms?
Had not omensand portents, and charms and spells, and the evil eye been believed in in all ages?
Every man who betrayed faith in omens or portents, or charms or spells, or the power of the evil eye, should be instantly clapped in the Castle.
By omens emboldened, to follow, the battle-flags, Caesar Commanded; and boldly led on down the perilous pathway.
Sudden a portent was revealed; how great An augury, the future brought to light, And frightening seers their omens sang too late.
Let yon false Dardan with remorseful eye Drink in this bale-fire from the deep, and sigh To bear the omens of my death.
O Goddess-born, high auspices are thine, And heaven's plain omensguide thee o'er the main.
Ball-players get no breaks without confidence in themselves, and lucky omens inspire this confidence.
A jinx is something which brings bad luck to a ball-player, and the members of the profession have built up a series of lucky and unlucky omens that should be catalogued.
So firm is their trust in the wisdom of the birds that even if they have worked for months at a clearing they will abandon it and never plant it, if the omens at the time of sowing be unfavorable.
Everywhere are signs andomens to warn man of danger or direct his course; theirs is a life where no schooling is so vital as the ability to read aright the "sermons in stones, books in the running brooks.
Nor Delia, who, before she said adieu, Asked omens fair at every potent shrine.
If the omens were unfavorable, it was because their prayers had not been sufficiently sincere.
If the omens were favorable, they passed a night locked up alone in one of the cells, for the purpose of prayer.
Before theseomens are fulfilled, I shall speak to my father to arrange our marriage.
All the omens and signs told him that he was coming into the thick of events once more, and he felt also that he would soon see Willet and Tayoga again.
The omens are ours," whispered Tayoga, with deep conviction.
Compare the Thirty-two Good Omensat the Buddha’s Birth, above, p.
This we know, to whom these omens appear, he surely will become Buddha; do thou make a strenuous effort and exert thyself.
And as at the moment of his conception, so at the moment of his birth, the thirty-two Good Omens were seen.
Of what use are signs and omensif the interpretation is always obscure?
I know that belief in signs and omens and prognostics can be laughed at; nothing is more ridiculous than the belief that man's fate is governed by the flight of birds, yet men have believed in bird augury from the beginning of the world.
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