obnuntiare

When Bibulus in 59 B.C. sought as consul to stop Caesar's proceedings by using his right of _spectio_, all he had to do was to announce that he was going to look for lightning (_obnuntiare_); and if there had been the smallest remnant of religious belief left in the

The Religious Experience of the Roman People From the Earliest Times to the Age of Augustus W. Warde Fowler 1884