An auspex, or
augur
An augur was a priest and official in the ancient Rome, classical Roman world. His main role was the practice of augury, the interpretation of the will of the List of Roman deities, gods by studying events he observed within a predetermined s ...
, was an interpreter of omens in ancient Rome.
Auspex may also refer to:
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Auspex International, a London-based data analytics company
* Auspex Pharmaceuticals, an American pharmaceutical company acquired by
Teva
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Auspex Systems
Auspex Systems was a computer data storage company founded in 1987 by Larry Boucher, who was previously CEO of Adaptec. It was headquartered in Santa Clara, California.
Auspex introduced the first network-attached storage (NAS) devices. After an ...
, a defunct American computer storage company
Persons with the name
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Pollienus Auspex (consul under Commodus) Pollienus AuspexThere has been enormous scholarly discussion over what offices should be assigned to this Pollienus Auspex and which to his father of the same name. This reconstruction is taken from Mennen’s ''Power and Status in the Roman Empire, ...
(fl. 3rd century), Roman military officer, senator, and suffect consul
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Pollienus Auspex (consul under Marcus Aurelius) (fl. late 2nd century and early 3rd century), Roman military officer, senator, and suffect consul
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Tiberius Julius Pollienus Auspex Tiberius Julius Pollienus Auspex (fl. 3rd century AD) was a Roman senator who was appointed suffect consul between AD 212 and 222.
Biography
Julius Pollienus Auspex, a member of the possibly Italian ''gens Polliena'', was probably the son of Polli ...
(fl. 3rd century), Roman senator and suffect consul
See also
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Haruspex
In the Ancient Roman religion, religion of ancient Rome, a haruspex was a person trained to practise a form of divination called haruspicy, the inspection of the entrails of Animal sacrifice, sacrificed animals, especially the livers of sacrifi ...
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