exta, ōrum (gen. plur. extūm, Pac. ap. Cic. Or. 46, 155.—Also EXTAE, ārum, Inscr. Fratr. Arv. ap. Marin. Tab. 41, 19; Tab. 42, 12; Tab. 43, 22), n. [sup. form for ecista (exista); cf.: exterus, extra;]
prop., the most prominent of the internal organs, hence, the nobler internal organs of the body , the inwards , as the heart, lungs, liver, the organs from the appearance of which in the victim the haruspices drew their prognostications (but viscera , the entrails , in gen. includes also the stomach, intestines, etc.): alios enim alio more videmus exta interpretari, Cic. Div. 2, 12, 28 (v. the whole passage): exta homini ab inferiore viscerum parte separantur membrana, Plin. 11, 37, 77, § 197; 28, 5, 14, § 56: EXTA PORRICIUNTO, dies danto in altaria aramve focumve eove, quo exta dari debebunt, Veran. ap. Macr. S. 3, 2; cf. Varr. R. R. 1, 29 fin. : dare, Liv. 26, 23, 8; cf.: dare Jovi, Mart. 11, 57, 4; for which: reddere Marti, Verg. G. 2, 194: per exta inventa praesensio, Cic. Top. 20, 77 al.: exta consuluit, Vulg. Ezech. 21, 21: abducunt me ad exta, to the sacrificial meal , Plaut. Mil. 3, 1, 117.