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Published entity metadata

Read-only identity and editorial metadata.

Canonical name
bird
Disambiguator
None
Kind
Animal
Scope
Class
Editorial note
No editorial note published.

Aliases

1

bird in the air

Descriptive reference · Simile

Location presence

Phase 6 currently covers 24 processed books.

0

No presence observations in the processed scope.

Claims

1
·Simile

A bird supplies the simile for Minerva’s flight into the air.

See evidence text
“she flew away like a bird into the air”

Additional evidence

Evidence records not already represented by a claim.

6
·Simile
“like a bird”
·Hypothetical
“even birds cannot fly the distance in a twelve-month”
·Direct
“all kinds of great birds had built their nests”
·Simile
“as a bird in the air”
·Simile
“like scared birds flying all whithers”
·Simile
“swiftest of all birds”

Passage preview

Book 1 · Passage 22

With these words she flew away like a bird into the air, but she had given Telemachus courage, and had made him think more than ever about his father. He felt the change, wondered at it, and knew that the stranger had been a god, so he went straight to where the suitors were sitting.