Augur (Nova Roma)

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==Nova Roma laws==
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==Powers and duties of indivudual augurs==
  
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The College of Augurs is established by the Constitution of Nova Roma.
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The Constitution of Nova Roma states:
  
 
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::'''2'''. The ''Collegium Augurum'' (College of Augurs) shall be the second-highest ranked of the priestly ''Collegia''.  The eldest member of the ''Collegium'' shall be the ''Magister Collegii''. The ''Collegium Augurum'' shall consist of nine Augurs, five from the Plebeian order and four from the Patrician order. They shall be appointed by the ''Collegium Pontificum'', and shall hold their offices for life, excepting in cases of resignation of office, resignation of citizenship, or loss of ''Assiduus'' citizenship by process of law.  Resignation of office or citizenship by an Augur must be made in writing to the ''Pontifex Maximus'' and the ''Magister Collegii''; the ''Pontifex Maximus'' and ''Magister Collegii'' shall be informed in writing of any process of law by which such an ''Augur'' has lost citizenship.  Augurs who have resigned their office, resigned their citizenship, or have lost their citizenship by process of law shall remain ''sacri'' in their persons but may exercise no augural powers or functions, nor shall they be accounted members of the ''Collegium Augurum''.
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:::'''a'''. The ''collegium augurum'' shall have the following honors, powers, and responsibilities:
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::::'''1'''. To research, practice, and uphold the ''ars auguria'' (the art of interpreting divine signs and omens, solicited or otherwise);
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::::'''2'''. To issue ''decreta'' (decrees) on matters of the ''ars auguria'' and its own internal procedures (such ''decreta'' may not be overruled by laws passed in the ''comitia'' or ''Senatus consultum'').
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:::'''b'''. Individual augurs shall have the following honors, powers, and responsibilities:
 
:::'''b'''. Individual augurs shall have the following honors, powers, and responsibilities:
 
::::'''1'''. To define ''templum'' (sacred space) and celebrate ''auguria'' (the rites of augury);
 
::::'''1'''. To define ''templum'' (sacred space) and celebrate ''auguria'' (the rites of augury);
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Nine augures were high priests assisting magistrates in taking the auspices advising the Senate and the magistrates on various aspects of divination, not the least of which was the proper handling of prodigies and portents. They created templa, or sacred spaces.

The Collegium Augurum is the second rank of the four major priestly colleges in Nova Roma, too. The duties of the augures include taking auspices before military and political actions, before the holding of the comitia centuriata or the comitia populi tributa, consecrating the sites of temples and shrines, overseeing the laws of augury (Ius augurium — the discipline or art of augury itself) and advising the Senate.

Active Augures

150px}} Gaius Claudius Quadratus

Augur Magister Collegii

150px}} Gaius Tullius Valerianus Germanicus

Augur

150px}} Flavius Vedius Germanicus

Augur



(9 positions; 3 filled; 6 open (4 plebeian, 2 patrician))

Augures Emeriti

Powers and duties of indivudual augurs

The Constitution of Nova Roma states:

b. Individual augurs shall have the following honors, powers, and responsibilities:
1. To define templum (sacred space) and celebrate auguria (the rites of augury);
2. To declare obnuntiatio (a declaration that unfavorable and unsolicited omens have been observed that justify a delay of a meeting of one of the comitia or the Senate).
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