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LIBER X · CAPUT 15

BIRDS, THE RACE OF WHICH IS EXTINCT, OR OF WHICH ALL KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN LOST

BIRDS, THE RACE OF WHICH IS EXTINCT, OR OF WHICH ALL KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN LOST. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
BIRDS, THE RACE OF WHICH IS EXTINCT, OR OF WHICH ALL KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN LOST · EDITORIAL PLATE X.15 · modern editorial plate
BIRDS, THE RACE OF WHICH IS EXTINCT, OR OF WHICH ALL KNOWLEDGE HAS BEEN LOST. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

sunt praeterea conplura genera depicta in Etrusca disciplina saeculis non visa, quae nunc defecisse mirum est, cum abundent etiam quae gula humana populatur.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

In addition to the above, there are many other kinds that are described in the Etruscan ritual, but which no one now living has ever seen. It is surprising that these birds are no longer in existence, since we find that even those kinds abound, among which the gluttony of man commits such ravages.