and the Englishman who continued the Pharsalia, says—
"Tristia mille locis Stylus dedit omina bubo." [8]
Horace tells us that the old witch Canidia used part of the plumage of the owl in her dealings with the devil:—
"Plumamque nocturnae strigis." [9]
Virgil, in fine, joined in the hue and cry against this injured family:—
"Solaque culminibus ferali carmine bubo
Saepe queri, et longas in fletum ducere voces." [10]
In our own times we find that the village maid cannot return home from seeing her dying swain, without a doleful salutation from the owl:—
"Thus homeward as she hopeless went,
The churchyard path along,