haruspex:  haruspex:
A religious official in ancient Rome who interpreted omens by inspecting the entrails of sacrificial animals.
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A beautiful person among the Greeks, ... A beautiful person among the Greeks, was thought to betray by this sign some secret favor of the immortal gods; and we can pardon pride, when a woman possesses such a figure that wherever she stands, or moves, or leaves a shadow on the wall, or sits for a portrait to the artist, she confers a favor on the world.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Beauty,or The Conduct of Life (1860)
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