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Mirab. (147) 845 a, 35, Ael. iii. 7, iv. 18, Geopon. xiii. 16, xiv. 26, 

 Theophr. De C. PI. vi. 4, Clem. Alex. Paedag. ii. 8 ; and why, Dion. 

 De Avib. i. 5. Doves do not fear the Vulture, Ael. v. 50; the hawk is 

 hostile to it, Ael. ii. 42, Most of the above mythical attributes of the 

 Vulture are summed up by Phile, c. iii De Vulture. 



The stories of Prometheus and Tityus, Od. xi. 577 ; Aen. vi. 595 ; 

 Lucret. iii. 997 ; Ov. Met. iv. 456 ; Val. Fl. Argon, vii. 357, &c. See 

 also s.v, dcTos. 



How the Persians exposed their dead to the Vultures, Herod, i. 140. 

 Cf. Ael. X. 22 Bnp/catot (s. BaKKaloi, 'Xcnravias Wvo^, Staph.) roiy iv 

 noXffMcp Tuv ^iov KarnaTpe-yj/avras •yu\//'l nf)o(iiiX\ov(nv, lepov to ^(oov eiVnt 

 nenicTTevKOTes (cf. Sil. Ital. iii. 340, xiii. 470). 



The augury of Romulus, Plut. Romulus ix, Quest. Rom. 93, Dio 

 Cass. xvi. 46, Dion. Hal. i. p. 7^, Ael. x. 22, Liv. Hist. i. 7, &c. ; of 

 Augustus, Sueton. Aug. c. 95. The prophecy of Vettius, drawn from 

 the vultures of Romulus, as to the duration of Rome, Censorin. xiv. 



The Vulture is sacred to Hercules, Plut. Mor. 286 A; is associated 

 with Pallas, Eur. Tr. 594. The Vulture and Scarab together, according 

 to their order and position, represented Neith or Phtha, y\.thene or 

 Hephaestus, Horap. i. 12 ; cf. Creuzer, Symb. iii. 338, and Lauth op. cit. 



In the system of Egyptian hieroglyphics the Vulture and the Beetle 

 are associated or contrasted with one another. This relation bears 

 upon certain statements made by Greek writers. The beetle, Kd<'dciijns, 

 is devoid of females (Ael. x. 15) as the Vulture is of males ; it is killed, 

 as is the Vulture, by the odour of myrrh (Ael. i. 38, vi. 46, Phile 120, 

 1215); it shares with the 'Eagle' the gift of the renewal of youth 

 (Arist. H. A. viii. 17, 601). For further details concerning Egyptian 

 Vulture-myths and for many references to other sources of information, 

 see Horap. ed. Leemans, pp. 171-191 ; and for the connexion between 

 the statements of Horapollo and the phonetic value of the Vulture- 

 symbol, see Lauth, Sitzungsber. Bayer. Akad. 1876, pp. 81-83. 



A fabled metamorphosis, Boios ap. Ant. Lib. 21" Ay pios 5e pureiiaXiv 

 els yvna, TravTrnv opinduiv '4x6icrTOV deals re Knl dvdpanrois. 



A medicinal application, Dioscor. ii. cap. De stercore : yvnos iicfyoBos 

 anodvpiaOel.aa ep[Spva eKTivdaaeiv napaSedoTai (a Statement frequently 

 made by the Arab Doctors, Bochart). For other medicinal uses of the 

 vulture's liver, heart, and feathers, see Plin. xxix. (4) 24, (6j 38, Galen 

 iv. 8, Sext. Platon. ii. 2, Quint. Seren. c. 47, &c. 



Proverbs. — yvnos (TKtd' €tt\ twv p.r]bevos Xoyov a^icov (cf. oVou crKid), 

 Suid. ; the proverb may refer, on the other hand, to the shadow of 

 coming events, in allusion to the Vulture's fabled prescience (vide 

 supra; cf. also Erasm. in Proverbiis s.v. viiltujis itnibra). ddrTov av 

 yi^x//' dr^hdvas jjup-rjaairo, Luc. Pisc. ^y. 



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