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Definition of Lituus

Lituus
Lituus Lit"u*us, n.; pl. Litui. [L.] 1. (Rom. Antig.) (a) A curved staff used by the augurs in quartering the heavens. (b) An instrument of martial music; a kind of trumpet of a somewhat curved form and shrill note. 2. (Math.) A spiral whose polar equation is r^2[theta] = a; that is, a curve the square of whose radius vector varies inversely as the angle which the radius vector makes with a given line.

Meaning of Lituus from wikipedia

- undertaking. The lituus was also used as a symbol of office for the college of the augurs to mark them out as a priestly group. The ancient lituus was an Etruscan...
- has media related to Lituus (curve). "Lituus", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994]. Weisstein, Eric W. "Lituus". MathWorld. Interactive...
- However, in military settings, they would wear the trabea. They carried a lituus—a wand to mark out the templum for augury—and a capis, a clay vessel used...
- instruments were used by aeneatores, including the buccina, cornu, tuba, and lituus. In addition to their roles in the Roman army, aeneatores were also used...
- to keep sacrificing bigger victims until litatio could be obtained. The lituus is the distinctively curved staff of an augur, frequently depicted on Roman...
- Denarius (42 BC) of C****ius and Lentulus Spinther, depicting the crowned head of Liberty and on the reverse a sacrificial jug and lituus...
- hand on a coin of Antonio Drusi. The simpulum is commonly shown with the lituus and other sacrificial and augural instruments, on coins of Julius Caesar...
- Opisthostoma lituus is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae. This species...
- Iconography of Wind Instruments in Ancient Rome: Cornu, Bucina, Tuba, and Lituus". Music in Art. 32 (1–2): 33–46. ISSN 1522-7464. JSTOR 41818803. Betts,...
- instruments were a long straight trumpet (tuba), a large curved br**** instrument (lituus), and a water organ (organum). During the Imperial period, the games might...