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And since mention has been made of the lituus, I must not pass over a question which obviously may be asked, whether the augurs' lituus is called after the trumpet of the same name, or whether the trumpet derived its name lituus from the augurs' staff; for both have the same form and both alike are curved. The trumpet called lituits was slightly curved at the end, differing from the tuba, which was straight, and the spiral cornn. The augur's staff was like a crook with a short handle. But if, as some think, the trumpet was called lituus from its sound, because of the Homeric expression li/gce bio/s, Iliad iv. 125. The bow twanged, it must be concluded that the augural staff was called litmus from its resemblance to the trumpet. And Virgil uses that word also as synonymous with tuba: Aen. vi. 167.
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The story of Croesus dumb son, from the books of Herodotus.
