- AUGURS
- a college of priests in Rome appointed to forecast the future by the behaviour or flight of birds kept for the purpose, and which were sometimes carried about in a coop to consult on emergencies.
The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. James Wood. 1907.
AUGURS
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