as Ecclipses, Comets, rare Meteors, Earthquakes, Inundations, uncouth Births, and the like, which they called Portenta and Ostenta, because they thought them to portend, or foreshew some great Calamity to come; Sometimes, in meer Lottery, as Crosse and Pile;
Batzuetan, munstro edo ezohiko akzidenteetan, hala nola eklipse, kometa, meteoro bitxi, lurrikara, uholde, sortze estrainio eta horrelakoetan, zeintzuei portenta eta ostenta deitzen zieten, etortzear zen lazeriaren baten iragarpen edo zantzu zirela uste baitzuten.