Birds

may not even birds follow those enemies in any direction.

The seer, dear to heaven, placed among the grandchildren's birds, goes forth with his sounds, the one of bold resolve.

The golden-winged bird, messenger of Varuṇa, the restless bird in the womb of Yama.

“The souls of mankind are one and all different by nature [10], and there is no accord among them save in the accidents of the virtues and the vices — after the manner of the natures of the sun, the moon and the stars, and the natures of the birds and the rest”

“A certain man put on the body of a woman, and after it that of a bird, and after it a plant, and then at last took on the body of water.

One may indeed see that the eggs of birds that have undergone such purifications, if warmed, are still quickened into life;

"And many birds beneath the sun's rays go to and fro.

And they say that birds too have the most pleasant quality of flesh when, no plentiful food being set before them, they themselves, scratching with their feet, pick out their food with toil.

But birds that make their nests near one another do not plot against one another, nor quarrel over food and twigs;

Therefore, doing nothing else but being gazed at, like the owls, we gather a great crowd of birds in very truth—being ourselves foolish and molested by others such as we.

book, bird, Saʻīd, knowledge, death, circle, cone, existent, body, living, sentient, easy, beautiful

as one who sees an airship (a balloon) and a bird and judges that the bird is pulling it, merely because both of them are flying;

3 — If an attribute is confined to a genus, a species or a class, it must be denied of what is other than it.

and he falls upon base matters like the creeping things and the insects, and he strives in seeking what is absent from him like the bird in flight.

we see in a certain kind of birds some signs of natural affection, recognition, memory;

But flee the divers tribes of birds and vex

With sudden wings by night the groves of gods,

When in their gentle slumbers they have dreamed

A bird's feather clothes it, the animal's tooth is hers — bound with cow's sinew she flies when launched;

All the cities are stirred up in hostility, whose mangled corpses the dogs, or the wild beasts or some winged bird buried, carrying an unholy stench to the city that held each man’s hearth.

As I took my place on my old seat of augury where all birds regularly gather for me, I heard an unintelligible voice among them:

For the altars of our city and our hearths have one and all been tainted by the birds and dogs with the carrion taken from the sadly fallen son of Oedipus.

For you used to get up in the coldest winter weather and go out before daylight to catch birds, and before the birds were astir you had your snares laid ready for them and the ground disturbed had been made exactly like the ground undisturbed;