necrŏmantīa (-ēa), ae, f., = νεκρομαντεια,
I an evoking of the dead to reveal the future, necromancy , Lact. 2, 16 init. , Aug. Civ. Dei, 7, 35.—
II Necromantea Homeri, that part of the Odyssey in which Ulysses descends into the infernal regions , Plin. 35, 11, 40, § 132.