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Observation of birds (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Bird Omens 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.02 Omen interpretation 05.02.02 Terrestrial omens (Šumma ālu) 05.02.02.04 Bird Omens Birds 02 Religious and ideological symbols and iconographic motifs 02.05 Animal/theriomorphic symbols and iconographic motifs 02.05.02 Birds	Keywords birds omens Phrygians
Period 6th century CE Roman Empire	Channel Christian-Greek philosophers and scholars

Text
pseudo-Nonnus, Invective 1.72 (Scholia):
The Phrygians, then, are said to have discovered every (kind of) augury. Of augury, one (kind) is the observation of birds - which the Phrygians discovered. … Observation, then, of birds is when, such and such a bird flying by, either in front or behind or to the right or to the left, they say that it portends such and such.

Source (list of abbreviations)
pseudo-Nonnus, Invective 1.72 (Scholia)

Bibliography

Brock 1971, 116

Brock, Sebastian. The Syriac Version of the Pseudo-Nonnos Mythological Scholia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press 1971.

Amar Annus

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