As an eagle stirs up its nest, flutters over its young, spreads abroad its wings, takes them, bears them on its wings:
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Ambrose of Milan
AD 397
He supported them like the eagle, which was accustomed to examine its progeny, so as to keep and to bring up those whom it observed to possess the qualities of a true offspring and the gift of an undamaged constitution and to reject those in whom it detected weakness of a degenerate origin even at that tender age. .
