sagus

1.

sāgus, a, um, adj. [v. sagio; cf. Cic. Div. 1, 31, 65; Paul. ex Fest. p. 255 Müll.], presaging, predicting, prophetic (as adj., only post-Aug.):

aves,

Stat. Achill. 1, 519:

clangores,

id. Th. 8, 204:

MANVS,

i. e. magical, Inscr. Orell. 2486.—

II.

Subst. (freq. and class.): sāga, ae, f., a female diviner, a wise woman, fortune-teller, soothsayer, Cic. Div. 1, 31, 65 (v. the passage under sagio); Col. 1, 8, 6; 11, 1, 22; Tib. 1, 2, 42; 1, 5, 59; Ov. Am. 3, 7, 29; Hor. C. 1, 27, 21; id. Ep. 2, 2, 208; Prop. 3 (4), 24, 10.—And, because such women often acted as panders,

2.

A bawd, procuress:

sagae mulieres dicuntur feminae ad libidinem virorum indagatrices,

Non. 22, 33: ut saga et bona conciliatrix, Lucil. ap. Non. 23, 4:

saga conducta pretio,

Turp. ib. 6.

2.

săgus, i, m., v. sagum.