[Reagan69]

Read the article. He’s hardly happy with Robert’s decision. The “guts” is referring to actual intestines, livers, etc.

[Verginius Rufus]

Goldberg got some of his terms a bit mixed up. The priests were "augurs"--"augury" (augurium was what they did (observation and interpretation of omens). Latin auspicium, from which we get "auspices," meant divination by means of birds. A haruspex was an expert on interpretation of entrails (haruspicina was the "art of inspecting entrails").