Att. for ὀσσεύομαι (which does not occur), divine from an ominous voice or sound (< ὄσσα), ὀττευομένη δὲ κάθηται she sits looking for omens, of a lover, Ar. Lys. 597; ταῖς τούτων κληδόσι by the cries of children, Plu. 2.356e; πρὸς [κόρακος] βοήν Ael. NA 1.48; generally, have forebodings of a thing, τὸ μέλλον Plb. 27.16.5; τι περὶ τῶν ὅλων Id. 1.11.15; c. (acc. et) inf., augur that…, Porph. Antr. 33, Luc. Lex. 19.
regard as ominous, τὴν τύχην, τὸ ἔργον, D.H. 9.23, 55; hence, deprecate as ill-omened, πάντα τῦφον Id. 2.19. — The Act. ὀττεύουσιν prob. f.l. in Ael. NA 3.9 (ὀπυίουσιν cj. Pierson Moer. p. 279 P.); κλῃδονίζομαι was the equiv. Hellenic form, acc. to Moer. l.c.

att. = ὀσσεύομαι.