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lEPAE {continued^, 



heart is eaten, to obtain prophetic powers, Porph. De Abst. ii. 48. A 

 Hawk sitting on a tree a sign of rain, Theophr. Sign. fr. vi, 2, 17. 



The Fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale, Hes. Op. et D. 201, 

 Aes. fab. 9. 



A metaphor of the Hawk and the Crows, Ar. Eq. 1052. 



The metamorphosis of Hierax, Boios ap. Anton. Lib. iii ; cf. that of 

 Deucahon, Ov. Met. xi. 340. 



The Hawk entered in Egj^pt into innumerable hieroglyphics, in 

 which its image is, in the main, a phonetic element, the symbolic 

 ideas being, for the most part, secondary (cf. supra, s. v. PairjO). 

 According to Horap. i. 8 "Apea ypdcfiovTes Kai ' A(Ppo8iTr]v, 8110 iepoKas 



^(oypa^ovcnv ; these are the symbols wv and 



Horus and 



Hat-Hor, the latter being the oIkos "Qpov of Plutarch. According to 

 Chaeremon, fr. 8 "i^vxrj-rjXios-deos = Upa^. On the sanctity of hawks in 

 Egypt, and the solar symbolism associated with them there, see also 

 (besides the references quoted above), Porph. De Abst. iii. 4 ; the Sun 

 called lepa^, ibid. iv. 16, Plut. De Is. et Osir. c. 51, Eus. P. E. iii. 10, 

 Clem. Alex. Strom, v. 7. 



For other words and phrases in which the hieroglyph of the Hawk 

 had part, see Horap. i. 6 Beov iSovXupepoi crrjpfjvai, rj v\l/os, fj Tainivacnv, 

 ij VTrfpoxjiv, rj aiyufi, 17 VLKrjv, ItpaKa ^(oypa(pov(ji : id. ii. 1 5 ifpa^ biareTapevos 

 Tas Tsrepvyas iv depi, o'lov nrepvyas ex^ovra avepov (njpinvai : id. ii. 99 

 iivdpanov anora^dpevov to. i'fita TtKva 81 anopiav ^ov\6pfvoi crrip^vai, lepaKa 

 eyKvpova ^(oypatpovaiv : Diod. Sic. iii. 4. 2 iepa^ avTo7s ar]paivfi iravra Ta 

 o^ecos yevopeva. Cf. Klaproth ad Goulianofif De Inv. Hierogl. Acrolog., 

 cit. Leemans in Horap. p. 150, and especially Lauth, Sitzungsber. Bayer. 

 Akad., 1876, pp. 77-79. 



See also aiadXwi', apaKog, (3air|'9, |3dp|3a|, j3e\Xoui''r]S, eXeios, eiriXetos, 

 KipKos, TrepKOs, irripvis, (nrij^tas, Tpi6p)(T)s, UTTorpiopxtis, <|>acro'0<j>oi'OS, 

 <|>pui'oXdYOs, &C. 



'IZI'NEI- olwvoi, 6pvi6es, HeS}xh. Cf. aX,eivoi, 



"IKTEPOZ. A bird with fabulous attributes; according to Pliny, 

 identical with galgidus, the Golden Oriole. 



Plin. XXX. II (28) Avis icterus vocatur a colore, quae si spectetur, 

 sanari id malum ["/crepoi', malum regium, the jaundice] tradunt, et 

 avem mori. Hanc puto Latine vocari galgulum {galbula, Mart, 

 xiii. 68). Cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 27 ; Coel. Aurel. Chron. iii. 5 passio 

 vocabulum sumpsit secundum Graecos ab animalis nomine, quod sit 

 coloris fellei. Cf. Schneider, in Arist. H. A. ix. 12 ; and Suid., who derives 

 the word from IktIvos. Vide infra s.v. x^paSpios. 



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