. "Lit. , any indication or action regarded as a foreboding, a foreboding , prognostic , sign , token , omen : mi pater, inquit (filiola L. Pauli), Persa (catellus) periit. Tum ille Accipio, inquit, mea filia, omen, I take it as a good omen : cum bonis ominibus incipere, Liv. praef. fin." . "Lit. , any indication or action regarded as a foreboding, a foreboding , prognostic , sign , token , omen : mi pater, inquit (filiola L. Pauli), Persa (catellus) periit. Tum ille Accipio, inquit, mea filia, omen, I take it as a good omen : cum bonis ominibus incipere, Liv. praef. fin." . .