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lituus

(ˈlɪtjʊəs)
n
(Instruments) (in ancient Rome) a type of curved trumpet
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2B; Viallard, 1973; Ramirez del Pozo in Assens et al., 1973) based on the presence of the larger foraminifera association of Alveosepta jaccardi (Schrodt), Everticyclammina virguliana (Koechlin), Pseudocyclammina cf lituus (Yokohama), Kurnubiapalastiniensis Henson and "Labyrinthina" mirabilis (Fourcade and Neumann).
Peudocyclammina sp., Peudocyclammina lituus YOKOYAMA, Trocholina sp., Trocholina alpina LEUPOLD, Trocholina sagittaria ARNAUD VANNEAU et al., Trocholina delphinensis ARNAUD-VANNEAU et al., Trocholina chouberti HOTTINGER, Trocholina elongate LEUPOLD, Trocholina campanella ARNAUD-VANNEAU et al.
It portrayed Octavian facing right with a lituus behind and the legend CAESAR COS VI on the obverse, with a crocodile and the legend AEGVPTO CAPTA on the reverse (see Figure I).
La lastra de terracota del palacio de Murlo con la escena del banquete muestra a Jupiter en su trono o sella curulis sosteniendo el lituus (Torelli, 1981: fig.
London, May 31 (ANI): By using a new software, researchers from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) and the University of Edinburgh have been able to recreate a long forgotten musical instrument called the Lituus.
(12) The augur's head is appropriately covered, although he does not hold the usual lituus (or curved wooden staff) as described by Livy, the form of which was well-known to renaissance historians and commentators; Du Choul, for instance, illustrated an engraving of a coin of Augustus depicting a correctly-accoutremented augur in Discorso della religione antica de Romani (Lyons, 1559), the Italian translation of his Discours de la religion des anciens Romans (Fig.
Thus Victoria and Salus were qualities achieved through the sacerdotal qualities of the figure of Augustus, with his augur's lituus, who was genus divorum, and stood there as presiding priest of a cult which sacramentally could secure the saeculum aureum.
In AElfric's Glossary, trudh interprets liticen 'player on the clarion' and trudhhorn interprets lituus 'cornet'; in another late glossary, trupas explains histriones 'actors'.
Vico, with his lituus, divides the regions of history and saves those who do not know the law of the nations.