Augural

Pompey was beside him, absurd in his augural cap and carrying a divining wand. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

He not only looked ridiculous in his augural outfit but plainly was embarrassed. ❋ ROBERT HARRIS (2010)

Congrats on having some posts in the augural edition, Cath! ❋ Cath@VWXYNot? (2008)

The augural ceremony will held at 1p. m and Barrister Dr. Shahida Jameel will be chief guest of the function. ❋ Unknown (2007)

This in augural lecture was given at 5.30 pm on Wednesday 11th January at the WolfsonLecture Theatre, National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery, QueenSquare, London. ❋ Thatsnews (2006)

It is the head of this bird which is represented in the hieroglyphic figures upon the augural staff; at least so it appeared to me whenever I saw the bird displaying its crest. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Caius Cornelius, who had the character of a good augur, the fellow-citizen and acquaintance of Livy, the historian, happened to be making some augural observations that very day when the battle was fought. ❋ Plutarch (2003)

"I could enjoin you from augural duties, but you'd still be an augur, Patera Calde." ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1996)

Lightning four times on the right, and an owl inside the augural place screeching as if being murdered. ❋ McCullough, Colleen, 1937- (1990)

Neither pontifical law nor augural science ever obtained credit outside of the Latin world. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

Haruspicy and the augural art were abandoned, and not even the ancient fame of the oracles could save them from falling into irretrievable desuetude. ❋ Franz Cumont (N/A)

He brought in also the augural science of his country, which had been only partially known before. ❋ Arthur Gilman (N/A)

Cicero claims that the pontifical as well as the augural books state that the right of appeal from the regal sentences had been recognized ❋ Anonymous (N/A)

_ Cicero (who could have had very little belief in the augural science) regards them as safeguards of the state, because as the Optimates generally secured the places in the augural college, it gave them a hold on elections and legislation. ❋ Marcus Tullius Cicero (N/A)

He too sat there, with the divining-rod of Quirinus, girt in the short augural gown, and carrying on his left arm the sacred shield, Picus the tamer of horses; he whom Circe, desperate with amorous desire, smote with her golden rod and turned by her poisons into a bird with patches of colour on his wings. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

'Hereat Helenus, first suing for divine favour with fit sacrifice of steers, and unbinding from his head the chaplets of consecration, leads me in his hand to thy courts, O Phoebus, thrilled with the fulness of the deity, and then utters these prophetic words from his augural lips: ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

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. ❋ 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (N/A)

First Punic War, Caere furnished Rome with corn and provisions, but otherwise, up till the end of the Republic, we only hear of prodigies being observed at Caere and reported at Rome, the Etruscans being especially expert in augural lore. ❋ Various (N/A)

In the city of Padua, one Caius Cornelius, who had the character of a good augur, the fellow-citizen and acquaintance of Livy, the historian, happened to be making some augural observations that very day when the battle was fought. ❋ Plutarch (1909)

They were the more anxious to do this as a report had got abroad that the augurs had received instructions to repair to Lake Regillus and set apart with the usual augural formalities a spot where business could be transacted by a properly constituted Assembly. ❋ Unknown (1905)