little owl
Latin word, found 15 times in the texts on Socratos.
Cicero, Letters to his brother Quintus 2.15.4: … orem habes! ego te libenter, ut rogas, quibus rebus vis, adiuvabo et tibi versus, quos rogas, hoc est Athenas noctuam, mittam.
Vergil, Georgics 1.403: nequiquam seros exercet noctua cantus.
Martial, Epigrammata 3.93.10: Videasque quantum noctuae vident mane,
All forms of noctua