Augural Terminology
Aveis asseriates Ia 1; aves asseriates VIa 1: avibus observatis, having observed the birds.
persnaies, pusnaies Ia 1: antici, postici, (in the part) before and behind.
dersua VIa 1: dextera, right hand, prosperous. The right hand was apparently seen as auspicious in Umbria as in Greece. Newman (Appendix II) cites the position of the augur in the inauguration of Numa, in which he faced east while Numa faced south. Right and left have both an auspicious and inauspicious meaning in Latin.
merstu VIa 1: iustissimus, rightest, most correct, propitious, superlative of mersos. Adjective mersos, from meḍos, means iustus (cf. Oscan meddix: supreme magistrate, iudex). Both words in Latin and Osco-Umbrian have a broader meaning than just, lawful: they may mean augurally correct, favourable, in agreement with the divine forces.
anglaf VIa 1: oscines, giving signs through their voice.
stiplo, anstiplatu VIa 2, 3: stipulare, leges dicere, stipulate.
mersta auei, mersta angla, esona VIa 3: most propitious birds (auspices), most propitious singing, divine.
stahmei stahmeitei VIa 5: statio statuta, templum designatum, augural templum, the designed space of augural observation.
neip mugatu VIa 6: ne mugito, muttito, that nobody shall make utterances, murmur. Silence is essential in augural practises,
nep arsir andersistu VIa 6: ne divis intersistito, that nobody shall come in between, barge in, between the divine (signs) and the augur.
disleralinsust VIa 7: alteravit (eṛali, erali=alter) render irritual, impair the auspice; attero VII a 11, 27: bad, unlucky.
verfale VIa 8: formula of the templum. According to a new etymology de Vaan connects this noun to Latin cognate urbs, both having the meaning of defined space for augural observation, from a PIE root *u(o)rb(h) plus /d(h)-h(2) enclosure, enclosed area.
stahmito VIa 8: statutum, designed.
tuderato VIa 8: finitum, defined, provided with boundaries. From noun tuder boundary, Etruscan tular.
vapersus auiehcleir VIa 9: lapididibus auguralibus (ablative), (near) at the augural stones, rocks.
tuder VIa 9: boundary, limit.
anclar VIa 16: oscines.
combifiatu VIa 17: conspectum capito, nuntiato, (the augur) shall announce the appearance of the auspices. Literally confidato.
popler anferener VIa 19: populi recensendi, lustrandi, review of the levied army. Buck cites the parallel instance of the ritual circumbulation holding a lit torch performed by king Tullus Hostilius in Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities IV 22.
perca arsmatia VIa 19: virga ritualis, ritual (and/or military) rod.
perne postne sepse sarsite uouse auie esone VIb 11: antice postice septe sarcte voce (et) ave (i. e. auspicio) divina, from before and behind, clear and cut (fully, wholly) voice and bird sacred. Or ...voto, augurio, sacrificio by vow, auspice and sacrifice.
peiqu: picus woodpecker; peica perhaps magpie; parfa: parrha, perhaps oxifraga or upupa; curnace: cornix, crow (VIa 1 etc.).
prinovatus: legatus, assistant to the arsfertur, possibly agrimensor, land-surveyor: probably from Greek πρινος, Celtic prinni oakwood.
percaf poniçate Ib 15; perca poniçiater VIb 51: virgas Punicae-mali rods, wands of pomegranate wood.
fato fito VIb 11: it looks fito had an active meaning in Umbrian, i.e. (having) become; fato has been interpreted as a passive past participle of a verb correspondin g to Latin fateor, thence fato fito: having become defined by utterance.
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