[635] Avispex, auspex, bird-seer; Wissowa, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. ii. 2580.
[636] Livy i. 7. 1.
[637] Fest. ep. 64; Cic. Div. ii. 33. 71: “Haec certe quibus utimur, sive tripudio sive de caelo” (the auspicia tripudio being used in the military sphere, leaving only the auspicia de caelo for the city); cf. i. 16. 28; Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. i. 79, n. 1; Aust, Relig. d. Römer, 203; Wissowa, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. ii. 2333.
[638] Dio Cass, xxxviii. 13. 3. Lightning from left to right especially in a clear sky was favorable; Dion. Hal. ii. 5. 2; Verg. Aen. ii. 692; vii. 141; ix. 628 (on the last, see Servius). A thunderclap was unfavorable to one entering office; xxiii. 31. 13; Plut. Marcell. 12; cf. Mommsen, Röm. Staatsr. i. 80, n. 2.
[639] Tac. Hist. i. 18.
[640] Cic. Div. ii. 18. 42.
[641] Cic. Div. ii. 35. 74; 18. 43; Dio Cass, xxxviii. 13. 3 f.
[642] Censoriae Tabulae, in Varro, L. L. vi. 86: “Ubi noctu in templum censor auspicaverit atque de caelo nuntium erit, praeconi sic imperato ut viros vocet.”
[643] Wissowa, in Pauly-Wissowa, Real-Encycl. ii. 2585. The auguraculum was doubtless used only by the augurs, not as Mommsen (Röm. Staatsr. i. 103, n. 2) supposes, by the magistrates.
[644] Livy viii. 14. 12; Cic. Vatin. 10. 24: “In rostris, in illo inquam augurato templo ac loco.”