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... and its belly was opened. With the help of its assistants (namely the ''[[haruspex]]''), the sacrificer verified if the victim had been well accepted through

...he headless and the second had a double-headed liver. After inspection the haruspex pronounced with a gloomy countences that the entrails disliked him, because ...tor Aelius) was sitting in judgment, a woodpecker settled on his head. The haruspex affirmed that if the bird was allowed to live, the fate of his own house wo

quickly, and the haruspex inspects the internal organs (exta): the normal, and the haruspex and Flamen Martialis pronounce the sacrifice

haruspex, the internal organs. Then he turns over and say: "Each is

...e plain, and it must be remembered that the kindred art of the soothsayer (haruspex), oracles, and the interpretation of fate by the drawing of lots ('''''sort

...gation either of a 'heavenly voice' heard on the Mons Albanus, or of the [[haruspex]]. Livy also says that it became the longstanding practice in Rome that wh