curved staff carried by augurs; a kind of war-trumpet curved at one end
Latin word, found 60 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, De Natura Deorum 2.9: An Atti Navi lituus ille, quo ad investigandum suem regiones vineae terminavit, contemnendus est? crederem, nisi eius augurio rex …
Cicero, Letters to Atticus 2.12.2: … idi ex tuis litteris quam ex illius sermone quid ageretur, de ruminatione cotidiana, de cogitatione Publi, de lituis , de signifero Athenione, de litteris missis ad Gnaeum, de Theophanis Memmique sermone; quantam porro mihi ex …
Vergil, Georgics 3.183: bellantum lituosque pati tractuque gementem
All forms of lituus