Themis, a study of the social origins of Greek ... - Warburg Institute

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The classical scholar is in no danger of forgetting the wider
and derived meaning of opvis. Aristophanes 1 is always at hand
to remind him :
An ox or an ass that may happen to pass,
A voice in the street or a slave that you meet,
A name or a word by chance over-heard,
If you deem it an omen, you call it a bird.
The danger is that we should forget the simple fact to which
the use of opvts, and olwv6