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Pronunciation: [ˈaɹəspˌɛks] (IPA)

Aruspex is a term that refers to a religious soothsayer in ancient Rome. While this term has a specific historical context, there are synonyms that can be used to refer to individuals who have similar roles in other societies. Some of these synonyms include diviner, prophet, oracle, augur, and seer. All of these terms are used to describe individuals who have the ability to predict the future or communicate with higher powers. While the specific cultural contexts of these words may differ, they are all used to describe individuals who have unique insights into what the future may hold, and who play important roles in religious or spiritual practices.
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In the first victim the Aruspex showed him the liver without a head; in the second the head appeared of unusual size, and all the other indications highly promising.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
It is reported that his mother, when formerly expiating a prodigy which had occurred in the family in behalf of this boy, who was an orphan, received an answer from the Aruspex, stating, that "the highest office would come to him;" and that not recognising, at Capua, any ground for such a hope, exclaimed, "the state of the Campanians must be desperate indeed, when the highest office shall come to my son."
"The History of Rome; Books Nine to Twenty-Six"
Titus Livius

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