niectores (interpreters of
dreams). _Ad Att._ viii. 11. 3.

[612] Cato, _R.R._ ch. 54; cp. Columella, i. 8 and xi.
1.

[613] See P. Regell, _De augurum publicorum libris_, p.
6 "Omnia illa auguria quae futurarum rerum aliquid
predicunt ... augurum publicorum disciplinae abroganda
sunt: aut privati sunt augurii, aut Tuscorum
disciplinae." Cp. Cic. _de Har. Resp._ 9. 18.

[614] Cic. _de Div._ i. 16. 28; Val. Max. ii. 1. 1.

[615] _La Religione nella vita domestica_, i. 153 foll.;
232 foll.

[616] Cic. _de Div._ i. 16, 28.

[617] This fragment is preserved in Gellius vii. 6. 10.
Nigidius may be responsible for many of Pliny's omens.
Regell, _op. cit._ p. 8.

[618] Hor. _Odes_, iii. 27. 1 foll.

[619] Exactly the same misfortune occurred in the middle
ages. The monks had abundant opportunity of observation,
but were occupied with other matters, and have left
behind them no works on natural history.

[620] See above, p. 169 foll.

[621] Livy vi. 12.

[622] See the fragment of Ennius' _Annales_ in Cic. _de
Div._ i. 107.

[623] Wissowa, _R.K._ p. 450; _Lex coloniae Genetivae_,
66 and 67.

[624] Livy vi. 41.

[625] See a good account in the _Dict. of Antiquities_,
vol. i. 252 and 255; and Wissowa in Pauly-Wissowa,
_s.v._ "auspicia."

[626] _Roman Public Life_, p. 162.

[627] Wissowa, _R.K._ 451, note 2; Marq. 241.

[628] Mommsen, _Staatsrecht_, i. 86.

[629] Wissowa, _R.K._ 451, note 7; Plut. _Quaest. Rom._
99; Pliny, _Ep._ 4. 8. Plutarch asks why an augur can
never be deprived of his office, and answers that the
secrecy of his art made it impossible. Cp. Paulus, 16.

[630] The latest authoritative account of the auspicia
is in Pauly-Wissowa, _s.v._, where the necessary
literature and material will be found for a study of an
extremely complicated subject.

[631] The technical term was _templum minus_, in
contradistinction to the _templum maius_, _i.e._ the
space in which he was to look for signs. See
Bouche-Leclercq, iv. 197; Fest. 157. The usual place was
the _arx_, where was the _auguraculum_, on which the
magistrate taking the auspices "pitched his tent"
(_tabernaculum_), looking to the east, with the north as
his left or lucky side. Von Jhering, _op. cit._ p. 364,
makes some ingenious use of thi