augŭror, ātus. 1, v. dep. (class. for the ante-class. and poet. act. auguro, āre, v. infra) [augur].
I To perform the services or fill the office of an augur , to take auguries , observs and interpret omens , to augur , prophesy , predict (hence with the acc. of that which is prophesied): Calchas ex passerum numero belli Trojani annos auguratus est, Cic. Div. 1, 33, 72; so id. ib. 1, 15, 27; id. Fam. 6, 6: avis quasdam rerum augurandarum causa esse natas putamus, id. N. D. 2, 64, 160; Suet. Oth. 7 fin. ; id. Gram. 1: in quo (scypho) augurari solet, Vulg. Gen. 44, 5: augurandi scientia, ib. ib. 44, 15; ib. Lev. 19, 26.—Transf from the sphere of religion,
II In gen., to predict , forebode , foretell; or of the internal sense (cf. augurium, II. A.), to surmise , conjecture , suppose : Theramenes Critiae, cui venenum praebiberat, mortem est auguratus, Cic. Tusc. 1, 40, 96: ex nomine istius, quid in provinciā facturus esset, perridicule homines augurabantur, id. Verr. 2, 2, 6: in Persis augurantur et divinant Magi, id. Div. 1, 41, 90: Recte auguraris de me nihil a me abesse longius crudelitate, Caes. ap. Cic. Att. 9, 16, A: futurae pugnae fortunam ipso cantu augurantur, Tac. G. 3 al.: quantum ego opinione auguror, Cic. Mur. 31, 65: quantum auguror coniectura, id. de Or. 1, 21, 95; so, mente aliquid, Curt. 10, 5, 13: Hac ego contentus auguror esse deos, Ov. P. 3, 4, 80: erant, qui Vespasianum et arma Orientis augurarentur, Tac. H. 1, 50: Macedones iter jaciendo operi monstrāsse eam (beiuam) augurabantur, Curt. 4, 4, 5.☞ The act. subordinate form auguro , āre (by Plin. ap. Serv. ad Verg A. 7, 273, erroneously distinguished from this in signif.).
1 (Acc. to I.) Sacerdotes salutem populi auguranto, Cic. Leg. 2, 8.—Trop.: oculis investigans astute augura, look carefully around you like an augur , Plaut. Cist. 4, 2, 26.— Pass. : res, locus auguratur, is consecrated by auguries : certaeque res augurantur, Lucius Caesar ap. Prisc. p. 791 P.: in Rostris, in illo augurato templo ac loco, Cic. Vatin. 10; so Liv. 8, 5: augurato ( abl. absol. ), after taking auguries (cf. auspicato under auspicor fin. ): sicut Romulus augurato in urbe condenda regnum adeptus est, Liv. 1, 18; Suet. Aug. 7 fin. dub. Roth.—
2 (Acc. to II.) Hoc conjecturā auguro, Enn. ap. Non. p. 469, 8 (Trag. v. 327 Vahl.); so Pac. ap. Non. l. l.; Att. ib.; Cic. Rep. Fragm. ib. (p. 431 Moser): praesentit animus et augurat quodam modo, quae futura sit suavitas, id. Ep. ad Caiv. ib. (IV. 2, p. 467 Orell.): si quid veri mens augurat, Verg. A. 7, 273: quis non prima repellat Monstra deum longosque sibi mon auguret annos? Val. Fl. 3, 356.