ἀλλ' οὐκ οἰωνοῖσιν ἐρύσσατο κῆρα μέλαιναν → by no augury could he ward off black death
vĭra: ae, f. vir,I a woman: quae nunc femina, antiquitus vira vocabatur, Isid. Orig. 11, 2, 23.