Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Ignispicium

This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Rich, Anthony (1849). The illustrated companion to the Latin dictionary, and Greek lexicon. p. vi. OCLC 894670115. https://archive.org/details/illustratedcompa00rich. 

IGNISPIC'IUM. A branch of the art of divination, which consisted in foretelling the secrets of futurity by the inspection of ignited matter. (Plin. H. N. vii. 57.) Compare Sen. Oed. 306 — 330., where the various appearances of the flames, and the results supposed to be indicated by them, are set out at length.