Hide browse bar Your current position in the text is marked in blue. Click anywhere in the line to jump to another position:
This text is part of:
Search the Perseus Catalog for:
Table of Contents:
![>](/img/east.gif)
![>](/img/east.gif)
![>](/img/east.gif)
![>](/img/east.gif)
![>](/img/east.gif)
![V](/img/south.gif)
![>](/img/east.gif)
![>](/img/east.gif)
![>](/img/east.gif)
![view as XML](/img/xml.gif)
1 "Oscines" and "alites." This was a distinction made by the augurs, but otherwise of little utility, as all the birds with a note fly as well.
2 See the story of the eyes of Argus transferred to the peacock's tail. Ovid, Met, B. i 1. 616.
3 It would be curious to know how the goose manifests its modesty, or "verecundia." We are equally at a loss with Pliny to discover it.
This work is licensed under a
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 United States License.
An XML version of this text is available for download, with the additional restriction that you offer Perseus any modifications you make. Perseus provides credit for all accepted changes, storing new additions in a versioning system.
View a map of the most frequently mentioned places in this document.
- Cross-references to this page
(1):
- Smith's Bio, Lacy'des
- Cross-references in general dictionaries to this page
(4):
- Lewis & Short, Massaesȳli
- Lewis & Short, ăpĕrĭo
- Lewis & Short, auxĭlĭor
- Lewis & Short, fētĭfĭco