RE: Pope Releases Peace Doves, Which Are Promptly Attacked by Meaner Birds
January 26, 2014 at 8:37 pm
Quote:The augur was a priest and official in the classical world, especially ancient Rome and Etruria. His main role was the practice of augury, interpreting the will of the gods by studying the flight of birds: whether they are flying in groups or alone, what noises they make as they fly, direction of flight and what kind of birds they are. This was known as "taking the auspices."
Try as I might I cannot find a reference to what they would have thought if the bird flew over and shit on the priest's head. Perhaps in Cicero's De Divinatione ?