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ornithomancy

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6 months ago VanishedOne said:

An ox or an ass that may happen to pass,
A voice in the street, or a slave that you meet,
A name or a word by chance overheard,
If you deem it an omen, you call it a Bird;
And if birds are your omens, it clearly will follow
That birds are a proper prophetic Apollo.

Chorus of Birds - Aristophenes, translated by John Hookham Frere.

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