From thence she seeketh the prey,.... From the high rock; from whence she can look down into valleys, and even into the sea; and spy what is for her purpose, and descend and seize upon them; as lambs, fawns, geese, shellfish, &c.
though they may lie in the most hidden and secret places. Wherefore in the original text it is, "she diggeth the prey or food" ; as treasure hid in secret is dug or diligently searched for; and for which she is qualified by the sharpness of her sight, as follows:[and] her eyes behold afar off; from the high rocks and higher clouds, even from the high sky, as Aelianus expresses it; and who observes that she is the most sharp sighted of all birds; and so, Homer says, some affirm.
lka rpx "fodit escam"; Montanus, Mercerus. De Animal. l. 2. c. 26. & l. 1. c. 42. Aristot. & Plin. ut supra. (Aristot. Hist. Animal. l. 9. c. 32. Nat. Hist. l. 10. c. 3.) Iliad. 17. v. 674, 675. so Diodor.
Sic. l. 3. p.