Poetry

Greeks and Roman's practiced Augury, and we have that word in our inauguration. Whether birds were flying left to right or right to left had an auspicious or inauspicious meaning, and these auspices were the tool the augurs used to inspect the innards of animals to look for signs in the organs of a sacrificed animal. Left or right meant something opposite to the Greeks or Romans. Our word sinister comes from the latin, whose appearance would have been auspicious to the Greeks.