Translation for 'augury' from English to Russian

augury [omen]

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• In Ancient Rome, the heron was a bird of divination that gave an augury (sign of a coming event) by its call, like the raven, stork, and owl.
• The Kayan have a strong belief in augury and nothing is done without reference to some form of divination, including breaking thatch grass, but most importantly consulting the chicken bones.
• Jonson employed an extensive body of intellectual and historical research on the subject of ancient Roman augury and fortune telling for his text: "The Masque of Augurs" shows that Jonson knew almost everything that could be known about Roman rites of augury."
• Organized efforts to predict the future began with practices like astrology, haruspicy, and augury.
• There are other factors of civilization that are more important than orator: ancient ordinances, traditions, augury, religious rites and laws, private individual laws.

• According to another legend, when Padmasambhava visited the lake he saw an auspicious phenomenon and then he considered it a good augury to enter the mainland of Sikkim, then known as Demojong.
• Romulus goes on to found the city of Rome at the site of his successful augury.
• 11 (the beginning only) the augury and fratricide.
• "Auspicium" primarily means an augury or auspice, which is a divinatory omen derived by an augur from watching the flight of birds.
• but originally meant "devoted to an augur" (a priest who practiced augury, interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds).

• Some Roman sources connected it to augury, and Rome was said to have been founded with the "august augury" of Romulus.
• Dwelly defines " [...] " (without the "i", a related form in Scottish Gaelic) as "1. augury, sorcery. 2. Druidism" and quotes Martin further.
• The effectiveness of augury could only be judged retrospectively; the divinely ordained condition of peace ("pax deorum") was an outcome of successful augury.