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What is a lituus?

What is a lituus? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A military trumpet.
  2. An augur's staff with a recurved top.
  3. (geometry) A curve with polar equation
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A Roman lituus, or clarion, was found near Tattershall Ferry.
It is the gold lituus dug up in the year 1824, within the monolithic circle of Leys, inverness-shire.
Eckhel infers from the guttus and lituus on one of Sulla's coins that he was an Augur.
The Roman lituus, the chief ensign of the augurs, became the crozier.

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