person
Spurinna
also: Spurinna
Etruscan haruspex who, when no heart was found in Caesar's sacrificial victim, warned that his counsel and life might fail; the prelude to Cicero's account of the omens before Caesar's death (De Divinatione 1.119).
Reading notes
- On Divination §1.119 when Spurinna said
The haruspex Spurinna read the heartless victim before Caesar's death; the same seer is famous for warning Caesar to beware the Ides of March.