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Ovid, nearly two thousand years ago, was extremely severe against the owl. In his Metamorphoses he says: "Foedaque fit volucris, venturi nuncia luctus, Ignavus bubo, dirum mortalibus omen." In his Fasti he openly accuses it of felony: "Nocte volant, puerosque petunt nutricis egentes." Lucan, too, has hit it hard: "Et laetae juranter aves, bubone sinistro:"
Warm in expression, and short in extent, it concentrates in narrow bounds the fire of poetical transport: on which account, it has been generally employed to celebrate the fervours of piety, the raptures of love, the enthusiasm of praise; and to animate warriors to glorious exertions of valour: Musa dedit fidibus Divos, puerosque Deorum, Et pugilem victorem, et equum certamine primnm, Et juvenum curas, et libera vina referre.
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