Attus Navius
historical figure · 2 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Legendary Roman augur famed for the miracle of the whetstone and augur's staff.
Or is that augur's staff of Attus Navius, with which he marked out the regions of the vineyard to track down the pig, to be despised?
In which I believe, nor can I despise the augur's staff of Attus Navius which you mentioned;
On the Commonwealth
Augur of the highest renown who blocked Tarquinius from renaming the equestrian centuries
nor could he change, though he wished, the names of the Titienses and Ramnenses and Luceres, because Attus Navius, an augur of the highest glory, was not the author for him.