A short curved staff used in religious ceremonies and divinations.
the staff held by augurs while carrying out divinations.
a short curving staff used in religious ceremonies.
A curved wand used by an augur. The augur would use the lituus to mark out the divisions of the sky in which he would make his observations. Sometimes shown on Roman coins together with other implements of the priestly colleges such as a jug, a knife, a sprinkler, and a simpulum. The plural is "litui."
the curved staff of an augur (q.v.).
An Augur's (soothsayer) wand.
Augur's or priest's staff; like a shepherd's crook