presentiment Copy link Outline 1. augŭrium (prophetic foreboding)2. praesāgītio (act of presaging; the sign itself being praesagium)3. poet. praesāgium mentis • presentiment: 1. augŭrium (prophetic foreboding): a kind of p. of future ages, quasi a. quoddam futurorum saeculorum, Cic. Tusc. 1, 15, 33. 2. praesāgītio (act of presaging; the sign itself being praesagium): id. Div. 1, 54, 123 (pr. divina, used of the prompting of the daemonion of Socrates), ib. 1, 31, 66. 3. poet. praesāgium mentis: Ov. Met. 6, 510. Oftener expr. by verb: to have a p.: (1). praesāgio, 4: Cic. Div. 1, 31, init.: Liv. Used by Plaut. with subject animus, Aul. 2, 2, 1 (praesagibat mihi animus). (2). augŭro, -or, 1 (in present sense, rather act.): Virg. Join: praesentire et augurare, Cic. fr. in Non. (Praesentire is to perceive beforehand, in whatever way.)