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haruspex

/huh-ruhs-peks, har-uh-speks/US // həˈrʌs pɛks, ˈhær əˌspɛks //UK // (həˈrʌspɛks) //

哈鲁斯佩克,哈鲁斯佩克斯,哈鲁斯佩尔

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n.名词 noun
  1. 1

    plural ha·rus·pi·ces [huh-ruhs-puh-seez]. /həˈrʌs pəˌsiz/.

    • : one of a class of minor priests who practiced divination, especially from the entrails of animals killed in sacrifice.

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Examples

  • Cato, the Censor, is on record as saying "that he wondered how one haruspex could look another in the face without laughing!"

  • "Hatred speaks in thee," said the haruspex, interrupting the indignant old man.

  • Thereupon, Roman haruspex looked into the eyes of Roman haruspex, and they both laughed.

  • The haruspex submitted, though deeply vexed, and asked whether the guilty boys were also to go unpunished.

  • No Etruscan haruspex or Roman augur could wish for clearer omens: it reads like a page of Livy.