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ἰρήκων κτλ. Cf. the omen in Tac. Ann. ii. 17. 2 (Germanicus to his legions) ‘irent, sequerentur Romanas aves’, and Aesch. Pers. 205 seq., where Atossa is dismayed by the sight of an eagle attacked by a hawk.

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