hăruspex | ar- (noun M) : (), , Sanscr. hirā, entrails; Gr. χολάδες, χορδή; cf. hariolus,Georg Curtius Gr. Etym. p. 202 sq.
* A soothsayer, diviner among the Etruscans, who foretold future events from the inspection of the entrails of victims; from this people they were introduced among the Romans (syn.: hariolus, augur, auspex, extispex).
* Lit.: haruspices mitte omnis,Plaut. Am. 5, 2, 2: quid enim habet haruspex, cur pulmo incisus etiam in bonis extis dirimat tempus et proferat diem?Cic. Div. 1, 39, 85; cf. id. N. D. 1, 20, 55: Etrusci haruspices,id. Div. 2, 35, 75; cf. id. Leg. 2, 9, 21; Gell. 4, 5, 5: cum haruspices ex tota Etruria convenissent,Cic. Cat. 3, 8, 19: Tyrrhenae gentis haruspex,Ov. M. 15, 577: quem (annum) saepe ex prodigiis haruspices respondissent bello civili cruentum fore,Sall. C. 47, 2; cf.: C. Mario per hostias dis supplicanti magna atque mirabilia portendi haruspex dixerat,id. J. 63, 1: dum sacra secundus haruspex Nuntiet,Verg. A. 11, 739: signaque ferre jubent: retinet longaevus haruspex Fata canens,id. ib. 8, 498; Macr. S. 3, 5, 1: qui de salute principis vel de summa rei publicae haruspices consulit, cum eo qui responderit, capite punitur,Paul. Sent. 5, 21, 3. Cf., on the haruspices, O. Müll. Etrusk. 2, p. 6 sq.
* Poet. transf., a prophet in gen.: utinam patriae sim vanus haruspex, etc.,Prop. 3, 13 (4, 12), 59: Armenius vel Commagenus,Juv. 6, 550.

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