AETOZ 5 



AETOI conti)iucd). 



adjacent to Aqiiila (cf. Manil. Astron. i. 353). See for other views, 

 Welcker, Der Delphin und der tlymnus des Arion, Rhein. Mus. i. 

 pp. 392-400, 1833. 



The myth of Nisus and Scylla or Ciris, Virgil (?) Ciris, Hygin. Fab. 

 198, Ovid, Met. viii. 146, &c. (a Semitic solar myth, O. Keller, I.e. 

 ■p. 259) ; see also E. Siecke, De Niso et Scylla in aves mutatis, Berlin, 

 1884, vide s. V. dXideros. 



The transmigration of Agamemnon, Plato, Rep. x. p. 620 ; of King 

 Periphas of Attica, Anton. Lib. Met. vi ; Ov. Met. vii. 399(cf.Th. Panofka, 

 Zeus und Aegina, Berlin 1836) ; of King Merops of Cos, Anton. Lib. 

 Met. XV. Cf. the ceremony at the consecration of a dead Emperor : 

 dfroy acpierai crvv tcB jrupl dveX€V(T6fj.fvos is top aldepn, of (f)epei.v dno yrjs 

 e's ovpavov rfjv tov jSao-iXeco? "^vxijv TnarevfTai vno 'PiofMLoiv, Herodian, 

 iv. 2. II ; cf. Dio Cass. Ivi. 42, Ixxiv. 5. 



The Eagle as a portent (a. TeXewraTos) in connexion with the founding 

 of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Suid. s. v. Adyos : of the Phrj'gian dynasty by 

 Gordius, Arrian, Anab. ii. 3, Ael. xiii. i ; of the Persian by Achaemenes, 

 AeL xii. 21 ; with the birth of Alexander, Justinus xii. 16. 5. 



The Eagle a portent of death : diros einKa6ea6e\s rfj KecpuXrj tov IBuvtos 

 ddvarov uvtm papTevfrni, Artemid. Oneirocrit. i. p. 1 12 (ed. Hercher). 



On the Eagle in augury cf. II. viii. 247, xii. 200, Od. ii. 146, xx. 242, 

 Aesch. Ag. 115, Ar. Vesp. 15, &c. : doubtless also referred to, though 

 unnamed, in such passages as Orph. Lith. 45, Aesch. Sept. c. T. 24, Pr. V. 

 486 : still more frequent in Latin, e.g. Liv. i. 24; Cic. De Divin. i. 47, 

 ii. 48 ; Sueton. Octav. 94, 96, 97 ; Valer. Max. i. 4. 6, Plut. Brutus xxxvii. 

 &c. See Hopf, Thierorakel, pp. 87 et seq. ; Spanheim in Callim. Hymn. 

 Jov. 69. 



On Eagles in the Mithraic mysteries, Porphyr. De Abst. iv. 16. How 

 the Etruscans understood the language of eagles, ibid. iii. 4. 



An Eagle's nest with seven eggs (!), as a portent, Plut. Marius, xxxvi. 

 An Eagle's nestling in symbolism and dream-prophecy, Horap. ii. 2 (cf. 

 Leemans tn loc). 



The mythical genealogy of the Eagle : Arist. De Mirab. 835 a, i. (6oj 

 fK TOV ^(vyovs Se tu>v dtTutv duTepnv twv iyyovav aXiaieros yiVerni napaXXu^, 

 eais av av(vyn yfvrjTai. eK de aXiauTcop <prjVr) ylverat, (k 5e Tovrav nepKvol 

 K. yvnes, k. t. A. ; cf. OeoKpoi/os, dXideros, <j>ili'T], &c. 



How (p>]vr] rears its young, Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619, Antig. Hist. Mirab. 

 4 (52), cf. Plin. X. 3. 



How the Eagle feeds and defends its young, and is affectionate 

 towards them, Ael. ii. 40, 0pp. Ven. 115, Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619 (cf. 

 Deut. xxxii. 11), but nevertheless casts them out, 8ia 4>6uvov, cpiafi ydp 

 i(TTi (})6ovep6s Kal o^vneivos, en 8e 6^vXn(3ijs, Arist. ibid. How it lays three 



