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AETOI Uontinucd). 



aUra Trepciaif^os. (Cf. Arist. H. A. 32, 619 b iiyj/ov 8e niTerai, ottok: e'lrl 

 TrXfi(TTOv TOTTOV KaOopa' Sumep deiov ot avOpconol (jiaa-Lv eivai p,6vov tcov 

 opveav.) 0pp. Venat. i. 281 ahros aWeploiaiv iniBvuiv yvaXoiaiv. Quint. 

 Sm. iii. 354 Dii^vSiv TrpocpepfO-TUTOs. 0pp. Hal. ii. 539 oaaov yap Kov(f>oi(Ti 

 fier' olmvcnmv avanTes, aUroi. Phile, De Aq. v^j/idpofins, KapriaTOi 6pv'i6u>v, 

 nrrjvoKpdrcop. Eurip. fr. 1049 (Cram. An. Gr. Oxon. ii. 452) yv\lr, Kvfiiv8is, 

 afTos, 6 Xwcrros ovros Koi (piXo^eveoTaTos. 



dcTOS o Ku\. ypTjaios. Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619 ptyicrTos tu>i/ dtTwv n7ruPTa>v, 

 fiei^aiv re ttjs (prjVTj^, Ta>v S' deTOiv kol rjfiioXios, )(po)pa ^avdos, (paiverai 5e 

 oXiyaKis axTTVfp r) KaXovpevrj Ku/iii/Str : cf. Plut. Amat. iv. 9 ; vide S. V. 

 p-opcljuos. This is usually taken, as is also the xp^'^'^^'i'o^ or do-repms of 

 Ael. H. A. ii. 39, to mean the Golden Eagle, Ag. Chrysaetus (L.) ; the 

 former birds are however said by both authors to be very rare, whereas 

 the Golden Eagle is the commonest eagle in Greece (Heldreichj. 

 Aristotle's statement as to its size is modified by Pliny (H. N. x. 3, 

 media magnitudine). The passage is obscure and mythical, as shown 

 by the allusions to KvpifSis and 4"')'^^ '■ Pliny's phrase solianque in- 

 corrtiptae origitiis is a literal but perhaps incorrect translation of 

 •yfjjo-tof. Many of the general references to deroi- apply more or less 

 closely to Aq. Chrysaetus, e. g. Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619, its nesting 

 habits ; vi. 6, 563 tIktu rpla cod, eVwd^ei iTfp\ TpiaKovra ijp.fpas : ix. 32, 

 619 b Tovs SacruTTodas ovk fvdvs XajujSdj/et, dXX els to Tre8iov edcrns npoeXde'iv, 

 this last statement being, however, very obscure : Ael. ii. 39, &c., &c. 

 On the other hand accounts of the capture of snakes and stories of 

 the combat with the Dragon (Arist. H. A. ix. i, 609 Tpo(f)i]i' ydp noieiTai 

 Toi's ocpeis 6 diTus : Ael. xvii. 37 ; II. xii. 200 ; Aesch. Choeph. 245 ; Soph. 

 Antig. 1 10-126 ; Nonn. Dion. xl. 476; Nic. Theriac. 448 ; Aes.Fab.120; 

 cf.Virg. Aen. xi. 751 ; Hor. Carm. iv. 4 ; Ovid, Met. iv. 712 ; Flav. Vopisc. 

 De Aurel. iv), are based on the habits of Circa'etiis gallicus, the Short- 

 toed Eagle, which feeds on reptiles, and partly also of the Lammer- 

 geier. In Imhoof-Blumer and Keller's Thierbilder we have coins of 

 Chalcis in Euboea showing an Eagle with the snake in its beak, and 

 also (pi. V. 9) a similar coin of Cyrene in which the bird's head is 

 evidently a Lammergeier's. 



The Vultures were frequently confused under the name d^Tos, e. g. 

 Aesch. Ag. 138 (jTvyel 8e delnvov nUru>v: as also in the story of Pro- 

 metheus, e.g. Hes. Th. 523; Aesch. Pr. V. 1022 ; Pr. Sol. ap. Cic. Q. 

 Tusc. ii. 10; Apoll. Rh. ii. 1254, 1263, iii. 851 ; Lucian, Prom. 20 (i. 203) ; 

 D. Deor. i. i (i. 205), &c., &c. ; and as in the story of the death of 

 Aeschylus, Ael. vii. 16, Plin. x. 3, Valer. Max. ix. 12. 2, Didym. Chalc. 

 ed. Ritter, 1845, pp. 84 &c., Hesych. Onomast. c. 16, where the deros was 

 evidently a Lammergeier, on whose propensity to feed on tortoises v. 

 Tristram, Fauna of Palestine, p. 94, see also Ibis, 1859, p. 177 ; cf. Aes. 



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