[52] ὄρνιθι ... αἰσίῳ like secunda alite or fausta avi for bono omine. A bird of omen was properly οἰωνός: Hom. Od. 15.531 “οὔ τοι ἄνευ θεοῦ ἔπτατο δεξιὸς ὄρνις: ι ἔγνων γάρ μιν ἐσάντα ἰδὼν οἰωνὸν ἐόντα”: Xen. Cyrop. 3.3.22 “οἰωνοῖς χρησάμενος αἰσίοις.” But cp. Eur. IA 607 “ὄρνιθα μὲν τόνδ᾽ αἴσιον ποιούμεθα”: Eur. Her. 730 “ὄρνιθος οὕνεκα”: Aristoph. Birds 720 “φήμη γ᾽ ὑμῖν ὄρνις ἐστί, πταρμόν τ᾽ ὄρνιθα καλεῖτε, ι ξύμβολον ὄρνιν, φωνὴν ὄρνιν, θεράποντ᾽ ὄρνιν, ὄνον ὄρνιν.” For dat., Schneid. cp. Hipponax fr. 63 (Bergk) δεξιῷ ... ἐλθὼν ῥωδιῷ(heron). In Bergk Poet. Lyr. p. 1049 fr. incerti 27 δεξιῇ σίττῃ (woodpecker) is a conject. for δεξιὴ σίττη. καὶ is better taken as = “also” than as “both” (answering to καὶ τανῦν in 53).
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