_oraculum consulere_—to consult an oracle.
_oraculum petere (ab aliquo)_—to ask for an oracular response.
_mittere Delphos consultum_—to send and consult the oracle at Delphi.
_oraculum dare, edere_—to give an oracular response.
_responsum dare_ (_vid._ sect. VIII. 5, note _Note to answer..._),
_respondere_—to give an oracular response.
_oraculum Pythium (Pythicum)_—an oracle given by the Delphian Apollo
(Apollo Pythius).
_vox Pythia (Pythica)_ (Liv. 1. 56)—an oracle given by the Delphian
Apollo (Apollo Pythius).
_prodigia procurare_[1] (Liv. 22. 1)—to avert by expiatory sacrifices
the effect of ominous portents.
_libros Sibyllinos adire, consulere, inspicere_—to consult the
Sibylline books.
_augurium agere,_[2] _auspicari_ (N. D. 2. 4. 11)—to take the
auspices, observe the flight of birds.
_de caelo servare_ (Att. 4. 3. 3)—to observe the sky (_i.e._ the
flight of birds, lightning, thunder, etc.)
_aves (alites, oscines)_[3] _addīcunt alicui_ (opp. _abdicunt
aliquid_)—the omens are favourable to some one.
_augures obnuntiant (consuli)_ (Phil. 2. 33. 83)—the augurs announce
an unfavourable sign.
_auspicato (rem gerere, urbem condere)_—after having duly taken the
auspices.
_omen accipere_ (opp. _improbare_)—to accept as a happy omen.
_accipere, vertere aliquid in omen_—to interpret something as an omen.
_faustis ominibus_—with favourable omens.
_omen infaustum, triste_—an evil omen; presage of ill.
[1] _procurare_, a technical term of religious ceremonial = to avert
by expiation; to take the necessary measures, observe the proper
ceremony for appeasing the anger of the gods.
[2] Not _auspicia habere_, which means to have the right to take the
auspices. As this right was usually combined with the right to
command, we find such phrases as _ponere auspicia_, to give up a
command; _imperio auspicioque alicuius, auspiciis alicuius_, under
some one's command.
[3] In the science of augury, _alites_ denoted birds which gave omens
by their flight; _oscines_ those which gave them by their cries.