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Dido.* Ovid constantly speaks of the presence 

 of this bird as an evil omen ;f and the same 

 notions respecting it may be found among the 

 effusions of most of the ancient poets 4 indeed, 



* Solaque culminibus lethali carmine bubo 

 Saepe queri, et longas in fletum ducere voces. 



Virg. Aeneid. iv. 462. 



t Foedaque fit volucris, venturi nnncia luctus 

 Ignavus bubo, dirum mortalibus omen. 



Ovid. Met. v. 550. 



Enmenides stravere torum tectoque profanus 

 Incubuit bubo, thalamique in culmine sedet. 



Grid. Met. vi. 432. 



Ter pedis offensi signo est revocata, ter omen 

 Funereus bubo lethali carmine fecit. 



Ovid. Met. x. 452. 

 Tristia mille locis Stygius dedit omnia bubo. 



Ovid. Met. xv. 791. 



J Nocturnaeque gemunt stryges, et feralia bubo 

 Damna canit. Stat. Thebaid. iii. 511, 

 Hie vultur, illic lucifer bubo gemit. 



Senec. Here. Far. C8C. 



Bubilat horrendum ferali carmine bubo 

 Humano generi tristia fata ferens. 



Epig. de voc. av. et quad. Antliol. ret. 



Lat. Ep. cxliii. 33. 



Quod trepidus bubo quod strix nocturna queruntur, 

 Quod strident ululantque ferae. Lncan, lib. vi. 



