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"ref": "2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 69",
"text": "What was distinctive about the strix was that […] it resembled an owl, or (to a lesser extent) a bat, being a winged, clawed creature, which flew by night and had a hideous screeching cry.",
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"ref": "191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus, archived from the original on 2022-10-08, act 3, scene 2, lines 30–32",
"text": "eī hominēs cēnās ubi coquont, cum condiunt,\nnōn condīmentīs condiunt, sed strīgibus,\nvīvīs convīvīs intestīna quae exedint.\nThose people, when they cook dinners, when they season them,\nseason them not with seasonings, but with screech-owls\nthat would eat up the living guests' guts.\n(This is in iambic senarii.)",
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"english": "That tree offered a hanging to an unfortunate neck;\nit offered dreadful crosses to the executioner;\nit gave foul shade to hoarse owls;\nit held the vulture's and screech-owl's eggs on its branches.\n(This is in elegiac couplets.)",
"ref": "16 BCE, Ovid, Amores, archived from the original on 2017-01-06, 1.12, lines 17-20",
"roman": "Vulturis in rāmīs et strĭgis ōva tulit.",
"text": "Praebuit illa arbor miserō suspendia collō,\nCarnificī dīrās praebuit illa crucēs;\nIlla dedit turpēs raucīs būbōnibus umbrās,",
"type": "quotation"
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{
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.139–140",
"text": "est illīs strĭgibus nōmen; sed nōminis huius\ncausa, quod horrendum strīdere nocte solent.\nScreech-owls they're called; but the reason for this name is that they are wont to screech dreadfully at night.\n(This is an elegiac couplet; “strī̆x” was associated with and in fact indirectly relates to the Latin strīdō, “to screech”.)"
},
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"english": "No the dark companion of the tripods [the raven], no burning lightning-bearer [the eagle]\nis there, and no hooting and clawed bird of golden-haired Minerva [the owl]\ncomes auspiciously to the auguries; instead, a vulture and\nhawks up above have rejoiced at their lofty plunder.\nEvil omens are aflight: ominous birds shriek in the clouds,\nand the nocturnal screech-owls and the death-like horned owl cry,\nsinging of loss.\n(This is in dactylic hexameters.)",
"ref": "c. 90 CE, Statius, Thebaid, archived from the original on 2023-02-18, 3.506-512",
"roman": "damna canēns.",
"text": "nōn comes obscūrus tripodum, nōn fulminis ārdēns\nvector adest, flāvaeque sonāns avis unca Minervae\nnōn venit auguriīs melior; quīn vultur et altīs\ndēsuper accipitrēs exultāvēre rapīnīs.\nmōnstra volant: dīrae strīdunt in nūbe volucrēs,\nnocturnaeque gemunt strĭgĕs et fērālia būbō",
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"An evil spirit, a vampire or a harpy who sucked the blood of children and caused nightmares."
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"word": "volātica"
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{
"word": "malefica"
},
{
"word": "venēfica"
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{
"word": "strī̆ga"
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{
"ipa": "[s̠t̪rɪks̠]",
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{
"ipa": "/striks/",
"note": "modern Italianate Ecclesiastical"
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{
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{
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"text": "Hispānia strigēs vocat aurī parvolās māssās."
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"tags": [
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]
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{
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"English terms derived from Latin",
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"Quotation templates to be cleaned",
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"ref": "2017, Ronald Hutton, The Witch, Yale University Press, published 2018, page 69",
"text": "What was distinctive about the strix was that […] it resembled an owl, or (to a lesser extent) a bat, being a winged, clawed creature, which flew by night and had a hideous screeching cry.",
"type": "quotation"
}
],
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],
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"(mythology) A bird-like demon feeding on human flesh and blood."
],
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"mysticism",
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"philosophy",
"sciences"
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"ref": "191 BCE, Plautus, Pseudolus, archived from the original on 2022-10-08, act 3, scene 2, lines 30–32",
"text": "eī hominēs cēnās ubi coquont, cum condiunt,\nnōn condīmentīs condiunt, sed strīgibus,\nvīvīs convīvīs intestīna quae exedint.\nThose people, when they cook dinners, when they season them,\nseason them not with seasonings, but with screech-owls\nthat would eat up the living guests' guts.\n(This is in iambic senarii.)",
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"english": "That tree offered a hanging to an unfortunate neck;\nit offered dreadful crosses to the executioner;\nit gave foul shade to hoarse owls;\nit held the vulture's and screech-owl's eggs on its branches.\n(This is in elegiac couplets.)",
"ref": "16 BCE, Ovid, Amores, archived from the original on 2017-01-06, 1.12, lines 17-20",
"roman": "Vulturis in rāmīs et strĭgis ōva tulit.",
"text": "Praebuit illa arbor miserō suspendia collō,\nCarnificī dīrās praebuit illa crucēs;\nIlla dedit turpēs raucīs būbōnibus umbrās,",
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{
"ref": "8 CE, Ovid, Fasti 6.139–140",
"text": "est illīs strĭgibus nōmen; sed nōminis huius\ncausa, quod horrendum strīdere nocte solent.\nScreech-owls they're called; but the reason for this name is that they are wont to screech dreadfully at night.\n(This is an elegiac couplet; “strī̆x” was associated with and in fact indirectly relates to the Latin strīdō, “to screech”.)"
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"ref": "c. 90 CE, Statius, Thebaid, archived from the original on 2023-02-18, 3.506-512",
"roman": "damna canēns.",
"text": "nōn comes obscūrus tripodum, nōn fulminis ārdēns\nvector adest, flāvaeque sonāns avis unca Minervae\nnōn venit auguriīs melior; quīn vultur et altīs\ndēsuper accipitrēs exultāvēre rapīnīs.\nmōnstra volant: dīrae strīdunt in nūbe volucrēs,\nnocturnaeque gemunt strĭgĕs et fērālia būbō",
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