KYANOZ— KYKNOI 105 



KYKNOI {continued). 



rare in Aeschylus ; not in Sophocles, save for nri'Kov KvKveiov in the 

 dubious fr. 708, ap. Clem. Alex. Strom. 716.] 



Description.— Arist. H. A. i. I, 488, viii. 12, 597 b opvi^ «yeXatoj : 

 ib. viii. 3, 593 b, enumerated among to. ^npvrepa tmp a-Tfyavoirodav : 

 lb. ix. 12, 615 ^lOTevovcTi nepl }\.ip.uas Koi eX?;, d^loToi 8e Koi ei/ijdeis Kal 

 fvreKvoi KoL evyqpoi, kw. tov aerov, eav ap^rjrai, dpLvvofifvoi viKaaiv, avToi 

 8 ovK ap)(ovai jjuixr]!. wSi/coi fie, Koi Trept to? TfXevras pdXiara a.8ov(nv' 

 avoTTiTOVTai yap Ka\ els to neXayos, Kai Tivei ^drj nXeovres ivnpa ttjv AilBvrjv 

 nepieTV}(ov iv ttj daXaTTD '^roWois adovai (poipfj yocoSet, koi tovtoiv eaypcuv 

 ano6vi]aKovTas ivlovs : cf. Ael. V. H. i. 14 \ey(i ^ApLcrroTeXrjs tov kvkvov 

 KaXkLTraiBa tivai koi TTokvnaiBa, k.t.X. : cf. also Athen. ix. 393 d ; Eustath. 

 ad Hom. II. p. 193 ; Dion, De Avib. ii. 19. Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 509 e'xft 

 aTro(pvd8ai oXlyas KciTcodev KaTa ttjv tov f'vrepov TeXevTtji'. OcCUr abun- 

 dantly 'Acrtw €v Xeipuvi, KaiJa-rpiov dp(p\ peedpa, II. ii. 461 : cf. Virg. G. 

 i. ^S^, Aen. vii. 699 ; on the river Hebrus, Ar. Av. 768 ; on Lake 

 Aornos, in the spot called Pyriphlegethon, near Cumae, Arist. De 

 Mirab, 102, 839. Its flight described, Plin. x. (23) 32. The swan as 

 food, Athen. ix. 393, Plut. De Esu Cam. 2, &:c. 



Myth and Legend.— On the combat with the Eagle, vide s. v. dexos, 

 and compare also the story of Leda ; cf also Ael. v. 34, xvii. 24 ; Dion. 

 De Avib. ii. 19. Is hostile also to 8pdK03v, Ael. v. 48, Phile 691. 



Is dXXrjXocfidyos fj.dXiaTa t5>v opvecop, Arist. H. A. ix. I, 610 (cf. d\Xr]Xo(f)d- 

 vos, Pice, A. and W., d\\ijXo(j)iXus, Sund.), cf. Plin. x. (23) 32 mutua 

 carne vescuntur inter se. Is killed by Kmveiov, Ael. iii. 7 ; places the herb 

 Xvyaia in its nest as a charm, Boios ap. Athen. ix. 393 E. How the Indians 

 do not favour the swan, from its want of filial affection, Ael. xiv. 13 ; yet 

 the swan bewails its dead parent in Eur. El. 151, cf Bacch. 1364 opvis 

 oTTco? Kri(priva [dp(f)il3d\Xei] noXioxpas kvkvos. Associated with the oficpaXos 

 at Delphi, Plut. De Orac. i. 409; vide s. v. dcros- A good omen to 

 sailors, Virg. Aen. i. 393, Aemil. Macer in Ornithogr. Anthol. Vet. Lat. 

 Epigr. et Poem. i. 116 (cf. Serv. in Aen. 1. c.) Cygnus in auspiciis semper 

 laetissimus ales, Hunc optant nautae, quia se non mergit in undas : 

 see also Stat. Theb. iii. 524 ; cf the Swan as a figure-head, Nicostr. 

 iii. 282, &c. : cf also the mythological (and astronomical) association 

 of the Swan with Castor and Pollux (Hopf, Orakelthiere, p. 177) : see 

 also Drummond in Class. Journal, xvi. p. 94. The Swan-maidens, 

 Kopm Tpe'is KVKvoiJ.op(f)oi, Aesch. Pr. V. 797. According to Nicand. and 

 Areus ap. Anton. Lib. c. xii, a certain Cycnus, and his mother Thuria, 

 were metamorphosed into swans at Lake Conopa, koX noXXol iv Tfj copa 

 Toi) dpoTov ivraiida (paivovTCU kvkvoi. 



On the Swan as the bird of Apollo, cf. Hymn. Plom. xxi, Callim. 

 Hymn. Apoll. 5, id. Hymn. Del. 249, Ar. Av. 772, 870, Ael. xi. I, Nonn. 

 Dionys. xxxviii. 202 kvkvov I'iyav TrrepofVTa, koi ov Ta^vv "mnov AttoXXwj'j&C., 



