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Forms: litibus (data provider: perseus), litibvs (data provider: perseus), litora (data provider: perseus), litoraque (data provider: perseus), litore (data provider: perseus), litori (data provider: perseus), litoribus (data provider: perseus), litoris (data provider: perseus), litorum (data provider: perseus), littora (data provider: perseus), littore (data provider: perseus), littori (data provider: perseus), littoribus (data provider: perseus), littoris (data provider: perseus), littorum (data provider: donatus-sup), littus (data provider: perseus), littusque (data provider: donatus-sup), litu (data provider: perseus), litui (data provider: perseus), litum (data provider: perseus), litus (data provider: perseus), litusque (data provider: perseus), litust (data provider: perseus), litusve (data provider: perseus), lituum (data provider: perseus)
Forms: litui (data provider: perseus), lituis (data provider: perseus), lituo (data provider: perseus), lituos (data provider: perseus), lituosque (data provider: perseus), lituum (data provider: perseus), lituus (data provider: perseus), lituusque (data provider: perseus)
Dictionary- Charlton T. Lewis: An Elementary Latin Dictionary
- Cooper: Thesaurus Linguae Romanae et Brittanicae
- Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
- lĭtŭus, i (gen. plur. lituum, Luc. 1, 237; Val. Fl. 6, 166; Sil. 13, 146), m. [prob. Etruscan; prim. signif. crooked]. I. Lit. A. The crooked staff borne by the augurs, an augur's crook or crosier, augural wand:
dextra manu baculum sine nodo aduncum tenens, quem lituum appellaverunt
, Liv. 1, 18, 7; cf.: lituus iste vester, quod clarissimum est insigne auguratus
, Cic. Div. 1, 17. 30; Geh. 5, 7, 8: Quirinalis
, Verg. A. 7, 187: lituo pulcher trabeaque Quirinus
, Ov. F. 6, 375.—B. A crooked wind-instrument (used to give signals in war), a curved trumpet, cornet, clarion: lituus sonitus effudit acutos, Enn. ap. Paul. ex Fest. p. 116 Müll. (Ann. v. 522 Vahl.); Verg. A. 6, 167: jam lituus pugnae signa daturus erat
, Ov. F. 3, 216: lituo tubae Permixtus sonitus
, Hor. C. 1, 1, 23: stridor lituum clangorque tubarum
, Luc. 1, 237: cornua cum lituis audita
, Juv. 14, 200.—II. Transf., a signal: de lituis, bow/pidos, Cic. Att. 2, 12, 2.—III. Trop., an instigator, author: lituus meae profectionis
, Cic. Att. 11, 12, 1.
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