[Mad Dawg]

Harpies are written about in Virgil's Aneid, which Lewis thought the second greatest poem ever written, the first greatest being Dante's Commedia (naturally).

They are creatures with the wings and hindquarters of birds but the forequarters and heads of women. They descended as a flock on a table wonderfully set for a feast and devoured what they wanted and fouled the rest with their waste, so that what they did not want was of no use to anyone else.

[Quix]

Ahhhhhhh

For some reason, I mostly avoided the Aneid and that was 40+ years ago.

Thanks.