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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:"
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