The augurs issued an opinion on a given vitium, but these were not necessarily binding.

In this sense, the word vice comes from the Latin word vitium, meaning "failing or defect".

To reduce the risk of error (vitium), the magistrate or priest who spoke was prompted from the text by an assistant.

Divine disapproval could arise through unfit sacrifice, errant rites (vitium) or an unacceptable plan of action.

The word "vice" is derived from Latin vitium "defect, offense, blemish, perfection," in both physical and verbal senses.

A hostia succidanea was offered at any rite after the first sacrifice had failed owing to a ritual impropriety (vitium).

Religious error (vitium) and negligence led to divine disharmony and ira deorum (the anger of the gods).

Gibberula vitium is a species of very small sea snail, a marine gastropod mollusk or micromollusk in the family Cystiscidae.

A mistake made while performing a ritual, or a disruption of augural procedure, including disregarding the auspices, was a vitium ("defect, imperfection, impediment").

Livy notes that the ludi had to be repeated three times in 216 BC, owing to a vitium (ritual fault) that disrupted the correct performance of events.

The Latin phrase for the philosophical concept of subreption is "vitium subreptionis" -vitium: fault, crime, error; subreptionis: creep, stealth, fraud.

-ti- before a vowel is often written as -ci- [tsi], so that divitiae becomes diviciae (or divicie), tertius becomes tercius, vitium vicium.

Felicitas was at issue when the suovetaurilia sacrifice conducted by Cato the Elder as censor in 184 BC was challenged as having been unproductive, perhaps for vitium, ritual error.

Livy believed that military and civil disasters were the consequence of error (vitium) in augury, neglect of due and proper sacrifice and the impious proliferation of "foreign" cults and superstitio.

It notes the Latin root vitium means "fault, vice," and defines it first as "to make faulty or defective" with a quotation from William Styron: "The comic impact is vitiated by obvious haste."

The original meaning of the semantic root in vitium may have been "hindrance", related to the verb vito, vitare, "to go out of the way"; the adjective form vitiosus can mean "hindering", that is, "vitiating, faulty."

The phrase diem vitiare ("to vitiate a day") in augural practice meant that the normal activities of public business were prohibited on a given day, presumably by obnuntiatio, because of observed signs that indicated defect (morbus; see vitium).