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The Natural History of Pliny, Volume 2 (of 6)

Note 2916 — BOOK X. THE NATURAL HISTORY OF BIRDS.

John Bostock translation

This story arises from the extreme acuteness of their power of smelling a dead body. The Egyptians said that the vulture foreknows the field of battle seven days.

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