Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Extispex

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

EX'TISPEX (ἡπατοσκόπος, σπλαγχνοσκόπος). A soothsayer, or diviner who affected to interpret the will of the gods, and the results of futurity, by inspecting the entrails of victims slain at the altar (Cic. Div. ii. 18.), as shown by the annexed illustration (Extispex/1.1), from a bas-relief of the Villa Borghese, the only ancient representation of this practice yet discovered.

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  Extispex/1.1