augures
Dictionary entries
- Entry →augur, auguris:
Common · Noun · 3rd declension
- Frequency:
- Common
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
- Field:
- Religion
augur, one who interprets behavior of birds; diviner, seer, prophet, soothsayer;
acc. pl.nom. pl.voc. pl. - Entry →auguro, augurare, auguravi, auguratus:
Verb · 1st conjugation
- Frequency:
- Frequent
- Dictionary:
- Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD)
prophesy, predict, foretell; practice augury; make known intention to (w/INF);
sg. pres. act. subj. 2nd
Examples
Liber I
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...lotam paruo reuocant Almone Cybeben, 600et doctus uolucres augur seruare sinistrasseptemuirque epulis festus Titiique sodaleset Salius laeto portans..."Liber XIII
Aulus Gellius
"...Quid sit "pomerium". I. "Pomerium" quid esset, augures populi Romani, qui libros de auspiciis scripserunt, istiusmodi sententia definierunt..."Liber VII
Aulus Gellius
"...potius naturamque verbi considerasset neque id solum, quod augures dicerent, inspexisset, veniam prorsus poetis daret similitudine ac translatione..."Liber V
Aulus Gellius
"...brevis in parte, qua robustior est, incurva, qua augures utuntur, quonam modo "subcinctus lituo" videri potest?" Immo ipse..."Liber I
Aulus Gellius
"...excusationem mereri aiunt; item cuius pater flamen aut augur aut quindecimvirum sacris faciundis aut septemvirum epulonum aut Salius..."Satura III
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...attulit ad nos: grammaticus, rhetor, geometres, pictor, aliptes, augur, schoenobates, medicus, magus, omnia novit Graeculus esuriens: in caelum..."Satura VI
Decimus Iunius Iuvenalis (Juvenal) from SATVRAE
"...uati crebrum poppysma roganti. diuitibus responsa dabit Phryx augur et inde conductus, dabit astrorum mundique peritus atque aliquis..."Liber V
Marcus Annaeus Lucanus (Lucan) from DE BELLO CIVILI SIVE PHARSALIA
"...uana uersat in urna.nec caelum seruare licet: tonat augure surdo, 395et laetae iurantur aues bubone sinistro.inde perit primum..."