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# For the Collegium Augurum: the toga trabea, the capis and the lituus.

*'''The person who was to take them first marked out with a wand (''lituus'') a division in the heavens called templum or tescum, within which he inte

... a variety of instruments, including lyres, tubicens, cornicens, flutes, a lituus and a water-organum. A trademark of the Numa Tradition is their own traditi

...rom him all succeeding augurs received the chief mark of their office, the lituus, with which that king exercised his calling <ref>Cic. de Div. I.2, II.17; L ...oins of the Romans, who filled the office of augur, we constantly find the lituus, and along with it, not unfrequently, the capis, an earthen vessel which wa

...g thus capite velato, I seized my consular stick in the right hand and, as lituus, waved it towards the North-East, South-East, South-West and North-West, in ..., still at the center of this templum, I marked out a smaller area with my lituus. It was a area of 21 Roman feet square. At the center of this tescum, will

...ated by a toga trabea of three scarlet stripes and a hem of purple, by the lituus and by the capis, and additionally shall wear a purple-hemmed laena at sacr

*'''[[Lituus|LITUUS]]''' (sg) (pl ''litui'') ... augur's telltale curved staff or a curved war-horn. In Christianity, the lituus survives as the crosier or curved or crooked staff of a bishop. For the au

2. A lituus appears on the reverse of the first aureus. What is a lituus and who uses them? (2 points)