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    undertaking. The lituus was also used as a symbol of office for the college of the augurs to mark them out as a priestly group. The ancient lituus was an Etruscan...
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    has media related to Lituus (curve). "Lituus", Encyclopedia of Mathematics, EMS Press, 2001 [1994]. Weisstein, Eric W. "Lituus". MathWorld. Interactive...
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  • he was described as "Lituista Regius"—"royal lituus player". In the second half of the 18th century "lituus" was described in one source as a Latin name...
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    An augur with sacred chicken; he holds a lituus, the curved wand often used as a symbol of augury on Roman coins...
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    Opisthostoma lituus is a species of air-breathing land snail with an operculum, a terrestrial gastropod mollusk in the family Diplommatinidae. This species...
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    Denarius (42 BC) of Cassius and Lentulus Spinther, depicting the crowned head of Liberty and on the reverse a sacrificial jug and lituus...
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    scholars believed that the alphorn had been derived from the Roman-Etruscan lituus, because of their resemblance in shape, and because of the word liti, meaning...
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    realistic. While Etruscan art usually depict the cornu in use alongside the lituus. It was likely a status symbol in Etruscan society. The cornu was used in...
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    natural trumpet, bass trumpet, post horn, Roman tuba, buccina, cornu, lituus, shofar, dord, dung chen, sringa, shankha, lur, didgeridoo, alphorn, Russian...
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    } Fermat's spiral: r = a φ 1 / 2 {\displaystyle r=a\varphi ^{1/2}} The lituus: r = a φ − 1 / 2 {\displaystyle r=a\varphi ^{-1/2}} The logarithmic spiral:...
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