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Definitions of auspice in various dictionaries:
noun - a favorable omen
Protection or support; patronage.
A sign indicative of future prospects; an omen: Auspices for the venture seemed favorable.
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| a divine or prophetic token. |
| a favorable omen |
| A divine or prophetic token. |
| Protection or support patronage. |
| A sign indicative of future prospects an omen: Auspices for the venture seemed favorable. |
| Observation of and divination from the actions of birds. |
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| Augury is the practice from ancient Roman religion of interpreting omens from the observed flight of birds (aves). When the individual, known as the augur, interpreted these signs, it is referred to as "taking the auspices". 'Auspices' is from the Latin auspicium and auspex, literally "one who looks at birds." Depending upon the birds, the auspices from the gods could be favorable or unfavorable (auspicious or inauspicious). Sometimes bribed or politically motivated augures would fabricate unfavorable auspices in order to delay certain state functions, such as elections. Pliny the Elder attributes the invention of auspicy to Tiresias the seer of Thebes, the generic model of a seer in the Greco-Roman literary culture.This type of omen reading was already a millennium old in the time of Classical Greece: in the fourteenth-century BC diplomatic correspondence preserved in Egypt called the "Amarna correspondence", the practice was familiar to the king of Alasia in Cyprus who needed an ' |