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LIBER X · CAPUT 7

THE BIRDS CALLED SANGUALIS AND IMMUSULUS

THE BIRDS CALLED SANGUALIS AND IMMUSULUS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.
THE BIRDS CALLED SANGUALIS AND IMMUSULUS · EDITORIAL PLATE X.7 · modern editorial plate
THE BIRDS CALLED SANGUALIS AND IMMUSULUS. Complete modern editorial illustration created specifically for this chapter.

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Sanqualem avem atque inmusulum augures Romani magnae quaestioni habent. inmusulum aliqui vulturis pullum arbitrantur esse et sanqualem ossifragum. Masurius sanqualem ossifragam esse dicit, inmusulum autem pullum aquilae prius quam albicet cauda. quidam post Mucium augurem visos non esse Romae confirmavere; ego, quod veri similius, in desidia rerum omnium arbitror non agnitos.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

There has been considerable argument among the Roman augurs about the birds known as the “sangualis” and the “immusulus.” Some persons are of opinion that the immusulus is the young of the vulture, and the sangualis that of the ossifrage. Massurius says, that the sangualis is the same as the ossifrage, and that the immusulus is the young of the eagle, before the tail begins to turn white. Some persons have asserted that these birds have not been seen at Rome since the time of the augur Mucius; for my part, I think it much more likely, that, amid that general heedlessness as to all knowledge, which has of late prevailed, no notice has been taken of them.