AETOI 9 



AETOX {coniimied). 



Phile 736, Geopon. xv. i, 30, Solinus, c. 2)7 ^ Philostr. V. Apollon. ii. 14, 

 Stobaeus 98, Priscian in Perieges. p. 393. Cf. Physiol. Syrus, where 

 the stone is called uvtovlkov, a corruption of evroKLov or ukotokiov : cf. 

 Eustath. Hexaem. p. 27, Epiphan. De Duodecim Gemmis, Sec, ed. 

 Romae, 1743, p. 30, Marbod. Lapidarium, 339-391 (King's Ant. Gems, 

 p. 404), See also, for mediaeval and other references, Boch. Hieroz. 

 ii. 312-316, and N. and Q. (8) v. 518, 1894. The Eagle with its stone, 

 an Egyptian symbol of security, Horap. ii. 49. 



Proverb and Fable. — Fable of Fox and Eagle, Archiloch. fr. 86-88 

 (no), Aes. Fab. 5 ; Ar. Av. 652. Hence according to Rutherford 

 (Babrius p. xlvii), the proverb nuTo^ iv noTavois, Pind. N. iii. 77 (138); 

 alfTos iv ve(f)€\aicn, Ar. Eq. Id 3, Av. 978, 987, fr. 28, and Schol. ; applied 

 by the oracle to the Great King (cf. Ezek. xvii. 3), Schol. in Ar. Eq. loio ; 

 cf. Zenob., Suid. eVi rSii' SvaaXoircov, Tvapocrov aeros iv veipeXais au oi;^ aXia- 

 Kerai : for other explanations, see Steph. Thes. 



dfTov liTTaa-Bai 8i8d(TKeis, Suid., Zenob. ii. 49 ; cf. Pseudo-Plutarch, 

 Prov. 25 aviv TTTtpQiv CtjTels 'inTaadai: hence, according to Rutherford, 

 the fable of the Eagle and Tortoise, Babr. cxv, Aes. 419 ; cf. Diog. L., 

 ii. 17, 10. 



alfTov Kavdapos /iaiev(ro//ai, Ar. Lys. 696 : eVi twv Tifxuipovfievcov rovs 

 fiel^ovas npoKuTup^avTas kukov, Xeyerai yap ra coa tov aerov a(pain^fip 

 6 Kapdnpoi, Suid.: cf. Ar. Pax, 133, and Schol., Lys. 695, Aes. Fab. 7, 

 Keller, op. c. p. 269. 



The oracle of Action, Herod, v. 92. 



Fable of Eagle shot with its own feathers, Aesch. Myrm. fr. 123, 

 cf. Schol. in Ar. Av. 808, Aes. Fab. 4. The Eagle and the Archer, 

 Bianor, Gk. Anthol. ii. p. 143. 



aeros Ka\ ^acrLXiirKos, Plut. Mor. ii. 806 E. The Fighting-cock and the 

 Eagle, Babr. v ; the Eagle and Lion in partnership, Babr. xcix ; the 

 Eagle mindful of benefits, Aes. 6, 92, 120, Ael. xvii. 37, whence the 

 proverb aUriov x^p'*" (Kriveiv, Apost. Cent. i. 78 ; cf Tzetz. Chil. iv. 302. 



The tame Eagle of Pyrrhus, Ael. ii. 40 ; the Eagle that saved Tilgamus 

 of Babylon, Ael. xii. 21 ; that saved Aristomenes, Paus. iv. 18. 5 : 

 cf. Antip. Sidon. xcii in Gk. Anthol. ii. 23 ■ see also Ael. vi. 29, Plin. 

 X. (5) 6: cf. Marx, Gr. Marchen, 18S9, pp. 29-50. 



On Hawking with trained Eagles in India, Ctesias, fr. 11 (ed. 

 Miiller), Ael. iv. 26 ; in Thrace, Ael. ii. 42 ; cf. also Leo Africanus and 

 Tzetzes Chiliad, iv. 134. On Eagles trained for Falconrj-, see (e.g.) 

 Scully, Contr. to the Ornith. of E. Turkestan, Stray Feathers, \\. p. 123, 

 1876; also Yule's Marco Polo, Schlegel's Fauconnerie, &c. 



Kepresentations of Eagles. — On Babylonian processional sceptres, 

 Herod, i. 195. On the sceptre of the Persian kings, Xen. Cyrop. vii. 



