Augurious

VVhen Telemus came from Sicilian ſeas, / Augurious Telemus Eurymides, / And ſaid to Polypheme, thy browes large ſight / Shall by Vlyſſes be depriu’d of light.

[T]he Maſter of the houſe began to look upon me with an ill eye; and I beleeve the ſcruple thoſe augurious people in ſuch kind of Accidents have, would have made this man have abandoned me to the fury of thoſe curſed Animals, if I had not bethought my ſelf, that the thing that made them ſo fierce after me, was the VVorld from whence I came: […]

Augurious Archer, do but write one line, / And, ere the line be dry thy quill hath penn’d, / Thine ſhall be ſouth, and thine / The dutiful North-end.

Ornithological symbolism abounds in the romancero and usually serves an amorous or augurious function.

In my view, it is significant—and maybe augurious—that all three previous contractions (1964, 1969 and 1972) occurred in periods of turbulent and difficult bilateral relations: the return to sugar in the early 1960s, the excesses of the leftist deviation in the late 1960s, and the acceptance of the Soviet economic model in the early 1970s.

Never hath the sun or moon risen on greater wisdom or benevolence, peerlessly (though I must qualify with a humble noting of the single and lone exception of my love) photogenic physiognomy, kindheartedness, social impetus, unflinching romantic spirit, shrewd counsel, magnanimity, financial felicity, vision, charity, acute literary assessment, perspicacity, augurious vaticination, societal conscience, mellifluous microphoning, pioneering taste, serendipitous homeland, virtuoso acting, agile acumen, and above all (I could go on for days but would not wish to cloy my patron) jocose, ebullient disposition than that of my intended lordship, for whom this apposite tribute now is sent forth into the world to proclaim her virtues, of which this list does contain only a poor and partial fragment.

The narrator informs the audience that Signor Piva ‘is the father of seven offspring, the last of which was the first infant born in the commune and to whom corresponds the augurious name of Aprilia’.