...This chapter pays more attention to certain highly typical features related to the auspices and the death of Remus. With regard to the auspices, it notes those of the twins' attributes that might be described as ‘natural’. Without anyone ever having instructed them in the reading of the auspices...

... by presenting some relevant features of the cognitive theory of ritual. It then introduces the Roman auspices (or auspicia) before turning to Cicero's complaint against Mark Antony for his failure to undergo inauguration as a flamen. The chapter also distinguishes between constitutive...

... entirety. The poems should be seen as a planned whole with a consistent design on the reader: this book fully acknowledges, and even brings out further, the heterogeneity of the collection, but it examines it nevertheless as a sustained reflection on the nature of poetry and the auspices for writing...

...Three instances of resistance to the auspices during the final years of the First Punic War suggest an undercurrent of opinion questioning the practice among the Roman nobility. The drowning of the pulli by the Consul P. Claudius Pulcher in 249 bc occurred not at his...

...Map 1. North-Central Italy and Appennine Passes. (Place names in modern Italian; for ancient equivalents, see General Index .) In his second consulship in 217 bc, C. Flaminius resumed his public rejection of the auspices by taking office on March 15 at Ariminum instead of Rome, thus...

... and coins of Janus to welcome another year. The first entire month of the calendar was under his auspices. An association with the past and the future made him the god of doorways. See also GODS AND GODDESSES OF ROME. Doorways Auspices Imprinted Festival This content is only available as a PDF. ...

...0 01 09 2005 The European Convention on Certain International Aspects of Bankruptcy, concluded under the auspices of the Council of Europe, was opened for signature in Istanbul on 5 June 1990. For ease of reference and identification, the Convention is usually known as the Istanbul Convention...

...The imperium and auspices of the Dictator are not as such greater than those of the Consuls; his superiority is grounded in the principle that in his presence, all other magistrates are rendered incapable of exercising their powers other than at his discretion. The Dictator’s...

...The Magister Equitum receives his powers (imperium and auspices) through appointment by the Dictator; unlike other magistrates, he does not validate his own auspices upon taking office (the Dictator does it for him). He does not hold his office from the People, and thus can...

... to surreptitiously pursue offensive research under the auspices of developing defensive capabilities. Germany’s research and development program was centered at the SS Military Medical Academy at Posen, under the supervision of Professor Kurt Blome—Germany’s version of Ishii Shiro, but without the megalomania...

... was developed in the context of a six-month workshop, TERQAS, funded under the auspices of the AQUAINT program. The ARDA-funded program AQUAINT is a multiproject effort to improve the performance of question answering systems over free text, such as that encountered on the Web. linguistics computational...

...0 17 09 2007 The current multilateral trade liberalization round, the Doha Round, is the ninth in a series of such negotiations which began in Geneva in 1947. The first eight of these were conducted under the auspices of the WTO’s predecessor, the GATT (General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade...

...The nearly universally accepted view that Roman magistrates required a special set of auspices (the “auspices of departure” or “auspices of war”) in order to legitimately command an army is a modern fiction without any evidentiary basis in the ancient sources. Mommsen’s view of imperium...

.... The Consuls of that year, C. Flaminius and L. Furius Philus, having been found vitio creati (elected under flawed auspices) by the College of Augurs, were required by the Senate to abdicate, so as to allow a complete renewal of the auspices through the process of an interregnum...

...Although attacks on augural rulings still occurred in 217 bc, the catastrophe at Lake Trasumene and the disaster at Cannae in 216 combined to effectively render further public questioning of the auspices politically indefensible. The appointment of a Dictator in both years, as well as back...

...VXORI OPTIMAE Preface No public action of the Roman State, the populus Romanus, at home or at war, was to be carried out without prior permission from Iuppiter Optimus Maximus: per­ mission obtained, through auspices, by the magistrate (usually a Consul, Praetor, Censor, or Dictator) in charge...