Illustrated Companion to the Latin Dictionary/Tripudium

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. 

TRIPUD'IUM. A term used in divination to indicate that the food was so greedily eaten by the sacred chickens, that part of it fell from their beaks and struck the ground, which was regarded as a sign of good omen. Cic. Div. ii. 34.