the owl
quoted 4 times by 2 works · as a person
also in the atlas: the owl the animal
Most often quoted — the words themselves, in quotation. The locus given for each is the passage in the quoting book; the harvest records no place inside what is quoted, and nothing here pretends to.
3 quoted · 1 reported
3 neutralin the voice of the ritual reciter 2 , the owl 1 , the reciter 1
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in the voice of the ritual reciter
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Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) Anonymous (Vedic) 3 neutral 3 citations · 13 passages
Each consecutive paragraph repeats a direct address formula naming a sending deity and the owl.
Sent by Soma, O owl — I cook you together.
kanda 20 ¶ -
in the voice of the owl
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Orations Dio Chrysostom 1 citation · 2 passages
The owl's counsel is presented as a series of reported speech acts ('she said', 'she bade them', 'she foretold') within Aesop's fable.
for from it, she said, there would come a drug from which there was no escape, by which they would be caught — the birdlime.
oration 12 ¶
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