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Ausʹpices

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Under your good auspices, i.e. through your influence, or the influence of your good name. In Rome only the Commander-in-Chief was allowed to take the auspices of war. If a legate gained a victory, he was said to win it under the good auspices of his superior in command.

“Auspex” is from avispex (avis and spicio), one who observes the flight, etc., of birds.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Aunt Sally
Aureola
Auri
Aurora
Aurora Australis
Aurora Borealis (Latin)
Aurora Raby
Aurora Septentrionalis
Ausonia
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Auster
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Austrian Lip
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Autolycus
Automaton
Automedon
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