among the Romans, was the staff made use of by the augurs in quartering the heavens. It bore a great resemblance to the crozier of a bishop, but was shorter. It was crooked at one end, and thickest in the curved part, according to A. Gellius. We frequently meet with a representation of it upon medals, amongst other pontifical instruments. It was called Litus Quirinalis, from Quirinus, a name of Romulus, who was skilled in all the mysteries of augury.

was also an instrument of music in use in the Roman army. It was straight, excepting that it had a little bending at the upper end like a litus or sacred staff of the augurs; and from the similitude it derived its name. The litus, as an instrument of martial music, was of a middle kind, betwixt the cornu and the tuba.