[677] e.g. the fall of the cap from the head of the sacrificing priest (Val. Max. i. 1, 5). Cf. Festus p. 64.
[678] Val. Max. i. 1, 5 “occentusque soricis auditus Fabio Maximo dictaturam ... deponendi causam praebuit.”
[679] ib. 4, 2 (the omens that T. Gracchus encountered when seeking the tribunate).
[680] ib. 4, 7.
[681] Plut. C. Gracch. 11.
[682] Cic. de Div. ii. 34, 72 “Illi autem, qui in auspicium adhibetur, cum ita imperavit is, qui auspicatur ‘Dicito, si silentium esse videbitur’; nec suspicit nec circumspicit: statim respondet, ‘silentium esse videri.’”
[683] Plin. H.N. xxviii. 2, 11.
[684] Cic. de Div. ii. 35, 77.
[685] Liv. i. 36; Cic. de Leg. iii. 3, 9.
[686] Cic. de Div. ii. 33, 71 “haec certe quibus utimur, sive tripudio sive de coelo, simulacra sunt auspiciorum, auspicia nullo modo.”