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Definitions of auspices in various dictionaries:
noun - kindly endorsement and guidance
noun - (ancient Rome) a religious official who interpreted omens to guide public policy
noun - a favorable omen
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| a divine or prophetic token. |
| kindly endorsement and guidance |
| A divine or prophetic token. |
| Plural of auspex. |
| Plural of auspice. |
| with the protection or support of someone or something, especially an organization: |
| approval, support, and control: |
| with the protection or support of something, especially an organization: |
| Auspices description |
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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 ' |