Truly, the expression was wrote in the first time by JUVENAL,
a latin
author who compares the wife of Odisseus, Penelope, to "RARA
AVIS IN
TERRIS" (A rare bird in Earth). The sentence is in Sathiras,
VI, 165,
and became a form to define all that is extraordinary
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