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that may hold for all the known cases. By such considerations Dumezil thinks that the two terms refer in fact to two aspects of the same religious act:
*auspicium would design the technical process of the operation, i.e. aves spicere, looking at the birds;
*augurium would be the resulting interpretation i.e. the determination, acknowledgement of the presence of the *auges, the action favoured by the god(s), the intention and the final product of the whole operation.In Varro's words "Agere augurium, aves specit", "to conduct the augurium,

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