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Augurs

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A college of priests in Rome appointed to forecast the future by the behaviour or flight of birds kept for the purpose, and which were sometimes carried about in a coop to consult on emergencies.

A poet and politician, born at Marseilles; author of "Nemesis," and the best French translation of the "Aeneid," in verse; an enemy of the Bourbons, an ardent Imperialist, and warm supporter of Louis ...

Augsburg

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A busy manufacturing and trading town on the Lech, in Bavaria, once a city of great importance, where in 1531 the Protestants presented their Confession to Charles V., and where the peace of Augsburg ...

Augsburg Confession

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A document drawn up by Melanchthon in name of the Lutheran reformers, headed by the Elector of Saxony in statement of their own doctrines, and of the doctrines of the Church of Rome, against which ...

August

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Originally called Sextilis, as the sixth month of the Roman year, which began in March, and named August in honour of Augustus, as being the month identified with remarkable events in his career.