{"author":null,"backreferences":[{"context_html":"<p class=\"c012\">Did the eagle, then, possess the power of divination, and the\r\nserpent (since this animal also is made use of by the augurs)\r\nnot? But as this distinction can be easily refuted, cannot the\r\nassertion that both were capable of divination be refuted also?\r\nFor if the serpent had possessed this knowledge, would not he\r\nhave been on his guard against suffering what he did from the\r\neagle? And innumerable other instances of a similar character\r\nmay be found, to show that animals do not possess a prophetic\r\nsoul, but that, according to the poet and the majority of mankind,\r\nit is the “Olympian himself who sent him to the light.”\r\nAnd it is with a symbolical meaning<a id=\"r818\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f818\"><sup>[818]</sup></a> that Apollo employs the\r\nhawk<a id=\"r819\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f819\"><sup>[819]</sup></a> as his messenger, for the hawk<a id=\"r820\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f820\"><sup>[820]</sup></a> is called the “swift\r\nmessenger of Apollo.”<a id=\"r821\"></a><a class=\"c008 pginternal\" href=\"#f821\"><sup>[821]</sup></a></p>","headings":["The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 of 2","BOOK IV.","Chapter XCI."],"marker_anchor":null,"paragraph_id":"pg70693-paragraph-316"}],"canonical_references":[],"date_end":null,"date_start":null,"deduplication_fingerprint":"3d7068cf8fbfc5917561787882b546db8ff905c91226dbc4705e6ba2804e1340","edition_title":"The writings of Origen, Vol. 2 (of 2)","edition_translators":["Frederick Crombie","W. H. Cairns"],"edition_year":1872,"explicit_reference_candidates":[],"headings":[],"id":"pg70693-f820","license_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/policy/license.html","public_import_allowed":false,"record_kind":"original-editor-translator-note","review_required":["work and recension attribution","original-work chronology","Bible reference numbering and citation kind","English edition rights and attribution"],"review_status":"needs_review","rights_evidence":"Project Gutenberg metadata: Public domain in the USA. Existing 1872 English edition; listed translators died 1889 and 1872. Electronic transcription subject to Project Gutenberg reuse terms.","source_anchor":"f820","source_ebook":70693,"source_html":"<div class=\"footnote\" id=\"f820\">\n<p class=\"c007\"><span class=\"label\"><a class=\"pginternal\" href=\"#r820\">820</a>. </span><span lang=\"grc\">κίρκος</span>, “the hen-harrier,” “Falco,” or “Circus pygargus.” <abbr class=\"spell\">Cf.</abbr> Liddell\r\nand Scott, <abbr class=\"spell\"><i>s.v.</i></abbr></p>\n</div>","source_sha256":"76ed9a9fd752c1d5095189e38fe3dcbbea0fd23d6be719db17360e4da14552fa","source_url":"https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/70693/pg70693-images.html#f820","text_sha256":"f629d42f4a88c3c72994acdeb0d7a9070e269d23acad07b9df37b6db2bdefecd","verified":false,"work_id":null}