Note 48 — SERMON IV. THE GENERAL ARGUMENT FROM PROPHECY. John xiii. 19.
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Hence Sidonius, in personating the city of Rome, makes her ask—
Quid, rogo, bis seno mihi vulture Thuscus aruspex Portendit? Sidon. Carm. vii. 55.
And again, addressing himself to the same city,
Jam propè fata tui bissenas vulturis alas Complebant (scis namque tuos, scis, Roma, labores.) Ib. ver. 358.
And, before him, Claudian, to the same purpose—
Tunc reputant annos, interceptoque volatu Vulturis, incidunt properatis sæcula metis. B. G. ver. 262.