6 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AETOI {contiimeir). 



eggs, hatches two, and rears one, Musaeus ap. Arist. vi. 6, 563, Plin. 

 X. 4 ; a similar statement of Jf'pn^, Horap. ii. 99 riKToiv yap rpia ma, to ip 

 fiovov fniXeyerai kui Tpecpet, Tci Be aXkn 8vo kXo.' tovto de ttokI, 8i.a to kot 

 (Kfiuov Tov x,pnvov Tovs 'ovv)(a.s anojSaXKeiv, Koi ivTevO^v pq bvvaadai tu rpia 

 ^pe(f>i] Tpe(peiv. 



How, when brooding, it goes without food, orrwr pr] apna^rj tovs t5>v 

 $T)picov (jKvpvovs (cf. Horap. i. 1 1). 01 re ovv ovv^es airov 8iacrTpe(f)ovTai oXiyas 

 Tjpepas, Kcii TCI nrfpa XfVKaiveTai, wcrrf (cat Tois TfKvois Tore ylvuvrai )(aXeTroi, 

 oil navTa 8e tci tuiv cieTmv yevq opoia nepi ra TeKvn, nXX 6 nvyapyos )(nXt7r6s, 

 01 8e peXaves evreKvoi nepi tijv Tpo(}irjv eiaiv, Arist. H. A. vi. 6, 563- 



The sharp sight of the Eagle, opvlOav d^vcoTrea-mTos, and how its gall 

 mingled with honey is an ointment for the eyes, Ael. i. 42 ; Plin. xxix. 38, 

 &c. Cf. II. xvii. 674, Alciphr. iii. 59 yopybv to ^Xeppa ; Prov. deTwdts /3Xe'- 

 TTfii', Lucian Icarom. 14 (ii. 769), Hor. Sat. i. 3. 26, &c. How the Eagle's 

 offspring look straight at the sun, and the bastards, being by this test 

 discovered, are cast out, Ael. ii. 26, cf. Arist. H. A. ix. 34, 620, Antig. 

 Mirab. 46 (52), Lucan ix. 902, Lucian, Pise. 46 (i. 613), Sil. Ital. x. 107, 

 Petron. Sat. 120, Claudian HI. Cons. Hon. Praef, 12, Plin. x. (3)4, Dion. 

 De Avib. i. 3, Apul. Florid, i. 2, Basil. Hexaem. viii. 6. 177, Eust. Hexaem. 

 viii. 6. 952, S. August. Mor. Manich. xvi. 50, Julian. Imp. Epp. 16 (386 C), 

 40 (418 d), Eunod. Ep. i. 18, id. Carm. ii. 150, Phile i. 14. Cf. Chaucer, 

 P. of Fowles, 331 'the royal egle . . . that with his sharpe look perceth 

 the sun.' On the Egyptian origin of this fable, see Keller, op. c. p. 268, 

 ^nd cf. Horap. i. 6, il. The Solar Myth is also oriental, and in the 

 Rig-veda the sun is frequently compared to a Vulture or Eagle hovering 

 in the air. 



The Eagle is exempt from thirst, Ael. H. A. ii. 26 ovdenoTe atroj 

 0VT€ Trrjyrjs delrai ovre yXix^Tat KovlcTTpas, dXXa Koi 5t'\|/'ovs dptivoop ecTTi : 



cf. Arist. H. A. viii. 18, 601 b ; but perishes of hunger (also an Egyptian 

 fable, Keller op. C. 267), yrjpda-Kovai 5e tois derols to pvyxos av^dveTai to 

 avo) yapyj/ovpevov del pdXXov, koi TeXos XipcS dTiodvi]<TKOv<Tiv. eTTiXeytTni 8e 

 Tis Koi pvdos, ws ToiJTn ndcrxei 8i6ti avdpunroi ttot S)v jj^iKijae ^evoi; Arist. 

 H. A. ix. 32, 619. Cf. Antig. 46 (52), Horap. ii. 96 (where the Eagle is 

 said to be for that reason an Egyptian symbol for an old and stan-ing 

 man), Epiphan. ad Physiol, c. 6, Plin. x. 14. 



It is however long-lived, paKpo^ios S' earlv' SrjXov 8e tovto ck tov 

 noXvv xpofov Tr)i/ veoTTiav tijv avTi)v diapeuetv, Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619 b. 



It feeds on grass, Ael. ix. 10 (poi'os ocnrep koi Aw? KeKXrjrai), is poisoned 

 by o-vp(})vTov, Ael. vi. 46, Phil. De An. Pr. 668, and in sickness eats 

 tortoises as a remedy, Dion. De Av. i. 3. 



Its hours of feeding : wpa 8e tuv ipyd^eadai. tierw kcu TreTeadai dn' 

 dpiaTov pexpi' deiXi^s' to yap ew6ev KadrjTai peXP'- ^yopds nXijdvovcrrji, Arist. 

 H. A. ix. 32, 619. 



