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TEPANOI {continued). 



De Arte Gramm. i. 25, Mayor in Cic. Nat. Deor. ii. 49, Hemsterh. ad 

 Lucian, i. 305, &c., &c. ; cf. Cicero, De Nat. Deor. 1. c, Martial xiii. 75. 

 How each carries a stone, ir ^x^'" ''"'' SftTri'oj' km npos tus eV/3oAaf twv 

 dveficov epixa, Ael. ii. I, cf. Antip. Sidon. cv, Ar. Av. 1137, 1429, Nonn. 



Dionys. xl. 515, Plin. X. 30 (23), also Prov. yepavoi Xidovs KnTnnfnTiJiKv'iai, 



of provident men, Suid. ; and how the same is a touchstone for gold, 

 Ael. iii. 13. [In Plin. xxxvii. 72, the stone yepaviTLs is said to be so 

 called from resembling the hue of the crane's neck.] How the oldest 

 crane, having encircled the flock, dies and is buried, Ael. ii. i. How 

 they post sentinels, who hold aloft a stone for wakefulness' sake, Ael. 

 iii. 13, Plut. Sol. Anim. x, xxix, Plin. x. 30, Phil. De An. Pr. xi. The 

 stone still figures in heraldry as the crane and her ' vigilance.' The 

 crane an Egyptian symbol of vigilance, Horap. ii. 94. It observes the 

 time of its coming, ' intelligent of seasons,' Hes. Op. 448 fjr dporoio re 

 (rrj/xa (pepei, Ka\ yd/JLaros coprjv 8eiKvv€i. 6p.^prjpov. Theocr. Id. X. 3 1 ^'^d 

 Schol., Ar. Av. 710 a-netpeiv fiep orav ytpavus Kpii^ovd is ti)v Ai^urjv 



The fight with the Pigmies. 11. iii. 6 avSpdai Ylvypnioiai cf)uvoi/ kcu 

 Kijpa (fytpovcrni, and Schol.; cf Arist. H. A. viii. 12, 597 {loc. dub) oh ydp 

 (an TovTo pv6os, a\X' eori Kara rtjv dXi]deiav yevos piKpov pev, axTrrep Xeytrai, 

 Kill avTo\ KOI OL Irnroi, Tpu>y\o8vTai 8' elal tov fiiov. Cf. also Strab. Geogr. 

 i. 2. 28, p. 35, XV. I. 57, p. 71 1 ; Ctesias, Photii Biblioth. p. 68 ; 0pp. Hal. 

 i. 620; Philostr. Imagg. ii. p. 375, Heroic. I.e., Babrius xxvi ; Apoll. 

 Vit. iii. 50, p. 136, &c. Frequent in Latin ; Plin. H. N. iv. 18, vii. 2, x. 

 23 (30); Ovid, Met. vi. 90 ; F. vi. 176 nee quae Pygmaeo sanguine 

 gaudet avem ; cf. Julian. Anticensor. Epigr. 3 aipari Uvypalav rjdopevrj 

 yepnvos: Juv. vi. 506, xiii. 168, Sec, &c. A myth of the cranes and 

 pigmies in Boios ap. Athen. 393 C rjv ns irnpd toIs Ilvypaiois ywi] 

 8LdaT]pos, ovopa Tfpdvn, k.t.X.i cf. Ael. XV. 29 ; Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 16 ; 

 Eustath. in Iliad. 1444. 14 ; Ovid. Met. 1. c. The legend of the Pigmies 

 appears in India in the story of the hostility between the Garuda bird 

 and the people called ki7-ata, i. e. dwarfs, the SKiparai of Ael. xvi. 22 ; 

 cf. Megasthenes ap. Plin. vii. 2. It is quite possible that this fable has 

 an actual foundation in the pursuit of the ostrich by a dwarfish race. 

 (Compare also Addison's poem Xlvypat.oyepavnpax'-'i ; Tyson's Essay 

 concerning the Pygmies, iS:c. 



The Cranes of Ibycus : the avengers of crime. Schol. Ar. Thesmoph. 

 168 : Suid. S. v. "ijSuKos* o-uXAijc^^elf 81 vno XrjaTcov eV iprjpias ec^ij, kuv tcis 

 yepuvovs, Of eTV^fv vnepinTaadai, eKdUovs ytveadai, Koi uvros p.fv avrjpedt' 

 p(Ta 8e rnvra toov Xj^otwj' tis ev rfj noKei Benadpevos yep'ivovs 'e(pr]' tSe, al 

 'l^vKov €k8ikoi, k.t.X. Cf. Iambi. V. Pyth. xxviii. 12. 6 Spas rovs 

 fiapTvpas. Cf also Plut. De Garrul. p. 509 F, Nemesian. De Nat. Hom. 

 c. 42, Eudoc. p. 247, Zenob. i. 37, Apostol. ii. 14, Diogen. i. 35, H. Steph. 



