[576] P. 92.
[577] Hor. Ep. I. i. 57; Pliny, N. H. xxxiii. 2. 32; Mart. iv. 67; v. 23, 25, 38; Pliny, Ep. 1. 19. 2; Juv. i. 105; v. 132; xiv. 326; Suet. Caes. 38.
[578] Serv. in Aen. iii. 89; vi. 190; xii. 259.
[579] Cic. Div. 16. 29 f.: “Dirae, sicut cetera auspicia, ut omina, ut signa, non causas adferunt, cur quid eveniat, sed nuntiant eventura, nisi provideris.” The last statement means only that a misfortune will happen, if an evil omen is unheeded. Cic. Div. ii. 33. 70: “Non enim sumus ii nos augures, qui ... futura dicamus;” cf. Lange, Röm. Alt. i. 331; Aust, Relig. d. Römer, 198.
[580] Serv. in. Aen. iii. 20: “Auspicari enim cuivis ... licet.”
[581] Cic. Div. i. 16. 28: “Nihil fere quondam maioris rei nisi auspicato ne privatim quidem gerebatur, quod etiam nunc nuptiarum auspices declarant, qui re omissa nomen tantum tenent;” 46. 104; Val. Max. ii. 1. 1. On the nuptial auspices, see De Marchi, Cult. priv. di Rom. i. 152-5.
[582] Romulus consulted the rest of the gods along with Jupiter; Dion. Hal. ii. 5. 1.
[583] The public auspices were Jupiter’s alone; Cic. Leg. ii. 8. 20. So were the auspical chickens; Div. ii. 34. 72; 35. 73; cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. i. 77, n. 2. In historical time the sign called for was Jupiter’s lightning; Cic. Div. ii. 18. 42; Vatin. 8. 20; Phil. v. 3. 7. The epithet Elicius, notwithstanding Varro, L. L. vi. 95; Livy i. 20. 7; 31. 8, does not find its explanation in the auspices; Aust, in Roscher, Lex. Myth. ii. 656 ff.; Wissowa, Relig. u. Kult. d. Röm. 106.
[584] P. 100, n. 3.
[585] In Gell. xvi. 4. 4.