Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898), Extispex

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（ἡπατοσκόπος, σπλαγχνοσκόπος). A diviner who professed to interpret the will of the

Extispex. (Villa Borghese.)

gods, and to predict the future, by inspecting the entrails of victims slain at the altar ( Div. ii. 18). See Augur; Divinatio; Haruspex.

Harry Thurston Peck. Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities. New York. Harper and Brothers. 1898.

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Harry Thurston Peck, Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities (1898)