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“ And regarding the second—the bird—the poet says:—
“Jove’s bird on sounding pinions beat the skies;
A bleeding serpent of enormous size,
His talons twined; alive, and curling round,
He stung the bird, whose throat received the wound.
Mad with the smart, he drops the fatal prey,
In airy circles wings his painful way,
Floats on the winds, and rends the heaven with cries;
Amidst the host, the fallen serpent lies. ”

“ And it is with a symbolical meaning [4] that Apollo employs the hawk [5] as his messenger, for the hawk [6] is called the “swift messenger of Apollo.” [7]
↑ εἴπερ οἰωνοὶ οἰωνοῖς μάχονται. For μάχονται Ruæus conjectures διαλέγονται, which is adopted by Lommatzsch.↑ Homer, Iliad, ii. ”