This is explained by what follows. An augur, of course, was the proper person to recognise the notes of birds, or what resembled them.
See [Note 76] to Agamemnon.
Pal. quotes from Massinger’s Emperor of the East, “To a sad tune I sing my own dirge,” which I have adopted.
Artemis, or Diana.
τον πολυξενώτατον Ζῆνα, that is, Pluto.