And the ostrich, and the nighthawk, and the sea gull, and the hawk after their kinds,
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George Leo Haydock
AD 1849
Ostrich. Hebrew, "the daughter of the júne. "The Rabbins say only the young ones were eaten. But this seems doubtful, with respect to many nations, which formerly served up ostriches at table. Heliogabalus presented some of these, as well as camel, to his guests, falsely asserting, (Calmet) that the Jews were commanded to eat them, præceptum Judæis ut ederent. (Lamp rid.)