rara avis
rara avis Latin phrase meaning literally a ‘rare bird’; a phenomenon, a prodigy. The expression comes from the Roman satirist Juvenal (ad c.60–130), ‘Rara avis in terris nigroque simillima cycno [A rare bird on this earth, like nothing so much as a black swan].’
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