Cippus
or
Cipus,
Genucius. A Roman praetor, on whose head horns suddenly sprouted as
he was leaving the city. The haruspices declared this portent to indicate that if he
re-entered Rome he would be made king, to avert which he imposed perpetual exile on himself
(Ovid,
Met. xv. 565; Val. Max. v. 6, 3).