See above, [p. 141], [Note 4].
That is, Asia. See [Introduction] to the Agamemnon.
Alluding to the well-known and beautiful allegoric myth that the goddess of wisdom sprang, full-armed, into birth from the brain of the all-wise Omnipotent, without the intervention of a mother.
See the [Preliminary Remarks].
παρόρνιθας, as we say ill-starred—that is, unfortunate, unlucky, the metaphor being varied, according to the changes of fashions in the practice of divination.