when the Sphinx pressed heavily upon the city with her ravaging
From LSJ
ὅσα ἦν νενοσσευμένα ὀρνίθων γένεα → as many species of birds as had their nests, all the other kinds of birds which had been hatched
English > Greek (Woodhouse Quotes)
ὡς ἐπεζάρει Σφὶγξ ἁρπαγαῖσι πόλιν
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