auspices
auspices originally, the observation of bird-flight in divination; later, a divine or prophetic token. In ancient Rome, an auspex (from Latin avis ‘bird’ + -specere ‘to look’) observed the flight of birds to take omens for the guidance of affairs; a flight of birds was the omen which established Romulus rather than his brother Remus as king.
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