ill-omened Copy link Outline 1. dīrus (appy. the proper augural term)2. infaustus (chiefly poet.)3. obscaenus (chiefly poet.)4. infēlix, īcis (poet.)5. tristis, e6. mali s. obscaeni ominis7. ĭnauspĭcātus • ill-omened: 1. dīrus (appy. the proper augural term): viscera without a "head," most i. of all, exta sine capite, quibus nihil videtur esse dirius, Cic. Div. 2, 15, fin.: cf. xii. tab. in Cic. Leg. 2, 8, fin., quaeque augur injusta, nefasta, vitiosa, dira defixerit: i. birds, d. aves, Plin. 18, 1, 1: Virg. 2. infaustus (chiefly poet.): Allia, i. name, Allia nomen inf., Virg. Aen. 7, 717: Ov.: more fully infaustus omine, Tac. H. 1, 6: v. inauspicious. 3. obscaenus (chiefly poet.): i. birds (owls), obs. volucres, Virg. Aen. 12, 876: an i. portent, obs. ostentum, Suet. Gal. 4: more fully, obscaeni ominis: Fest. s. v. Alliensis. 4. infēlix, īcis (poet.): i. portent, monstrum inf., Virg. Aen. 2, 245. 5. tristis, e: most i. viscera, exta tristissima, Cic. Div. 2, 15, fin.: Virg. 6. mali s. obscaeni ominis: v. omen. 7. ĭnauspĭcātus: v. inauspicious.