AAEKTPYflN 25 



AAEKTPYiiN [continued). 



Evpoinrj, Mnaseas ap. Ael. xvii. 46 al fj.ev ovu a^fKmpi^es ev tm TTis''H^r]s 

 VffxovTai vecp, ol 8e (v 'HpiiKXeovs oi rafSe -ynpeTm : cf. Plut. ii. 696 E, Paus. 

 ii. 148. 



Ael. N, A. ii. 30, how a new- purchased cock, if carried thrice 

 round the table, does not seek thereafter to escape. lb. iii. 31, how 

 the Hon fears the cock, and how the latter frightens the basilisk 

 to death : for which reason travellers in Libya take a cock along with 

 them. Cf. ibid. vi. 22 e)(6iaTa 8e tw /xiu Xeoi/ri nip koL dXeKTpvojv : Aes. 

 Fab. 323 ; Plut. De Inv. iv (Mor. 650, 5), Sol. Anim. xxxii (Mor. 1201, 

 23). Hence also the use of a Cock to destroy the Lion-weed, rj Xeov- 

 T€ios TT6a = dpo^dyxr], Geopon. ii. 42. 3. A confusion is possibly indicated 

 here with the Galli, priests of Cybele ; according to Varro, De R. R. 

 c. 20 (Nonius, s. V. mansuetum), when the Galli saw a lion, tynipmtis 

 . . . feceritnt 7)iansuetuiji: for other important references see Mayor's 

 note to Juv. viii. 176. Note further that a mystical name for the Sun 

 was Xe'wj', and that those who participated in the rites of Mithra were 

 called Lions ; Porphyr. De Abst. iv. 16. Niclas, the learned editor of 

 the Geoponica (ed. 1781), and certain other historians quoted by him, 

 finding that a lion in Bavaria evinced no terror at the sight of a Cock, 

 but killed and ate the bird, still remained faithful to the old tradition, 

 asserting that that lion's spirit must have been broken by captivity : 

 scimus quam vim habeat consuetudo ; cum diu in galli vicinia detentus 

 esset, quid mirum, si eum ferre didicerit, &c. ! 



Paus. ii. 34. 2 ; at Methana (Troezene) a Cock with white wings was 

 torn in two by two men as a charm to protect the vines from the wind 

 At\|^, cf. J. G. Frazer, Folk-lore, i. 163, 1890. See on Sacrifices of the 

 Cock, Sir J. G. Dalyell's Darker Superstitions of Scotland, 1835 ; Sir 

 S. Baker, Nile Sources, pp. 327, 335, &c., &c. 



On dXeKTpvopavTfla, see Lucian's Gallus, De Dea Syr. xlviii, Cic. De 

 Div. ii, Plin. x. (21) 24; cf. Mem. Acad. Inscr. vii. 23, xii. 49; Hopf, 

 Thierorakel, pp. 1 61-163. 



How some cannot abide a cock or a hen, Plut. fr. viii. 10 (12. 23). 



The Cock as a weather-prophet, Ael. vii. 7, Plut. Mor. 129 A, 

 Theophr. De Sign. i. 17, Arat. Progn. 960 (228), Geopon. i. 3, 8. 



How the flesh of a fowl absorbs molten gold, Plin. xxix. 25. 



Is hostile to iWrayik, Ael. vi. 45. 



Proverb and Fable. 



d\(KTpv6vos KoiXutv f'xe"', Ar. Yesp. 794 (i. e. the stomach of an 

 ostrich, to swallow pebbles), cf. Suid. 



dXeKTcop TTiVet Koi ovk ovpe'i, Suid. q. v. 



X'qdovai yap roi KciuepcoP bu^oBoi 6r)Xfiav opviv, ttXijj/ otuv tokos naprj, 

 Soph. fr. 424. 



