En caecos harauspices

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  • ECH: anagram for HCE
  • haruspices: (Latin) In Ancient Rome, haruspices were diviners who read the future in the entrails of sacrificed birds and beasts.
  • en (Latin) then, indeed, well then
  • caecos (Latin) accusative masculine plural of caecus, meaning "blind"
  • blind haruspices useless predictions; or, perhaps the three Graeae or ancient, blind wise women of Greek mythology, who were said to possess all knowledge.