128 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



riEAAPrOI {contimted). 

 venire sed venisse cemimus : utrumque nocturnis fit temporibus. Cf. 

 Dionys. De Avib. i. 31. (Its departure is scarcely noticed ; Lindermayer, 

 op. cit., p. 154). Ael. iii. 23 t^s a>pns be Tfjs Kpi'/LtwSovs 8i(\6ot(r>]s, orav 

 vTToa-rpe^oxTii' es rh t'5ia, rrjv iaxnuiV eKnnros KaXiav avnyvapi^ovaiv, ws 

 TTjv olKiav (wQpaTvoi. The precise regularity of their coming (cf. s. v. 

 vcpai'os) : LucuUus to Pompey, ap. Plut. i. 518 D e'lra, i(f>r], <to\ 8okS> 

 fXaTTOva rSiV yepdvav vovv eX'^'-^ ''"'' "^^^ irfXapyav, atare rals apais p-f) 

 avppera^uWfiv ras diairas ; Cf. 6 ne\apybs dXi^TJj?, Call. Fr. 475. 

 According to Strabo, 221, 397, connected with IleXaayoi, a nomad race; 

 cf. Dion. Hal. i. 28. 



Filial Piety.— Ar. Av. 1 35 5 fV')»' 6 naTrjp 6 neXapyos (KTrfrr]aiuovs | 

 Trdvras Troir/cri; tovs TreXap-ytSr^y Tpecfionv | Sei rovi t/eoTTouv top narepa ndXif 

 Tpecpuv. Cf. Plut. Alcib. i. 135 D, Arist. H. A. ix. 13, 615 b, Ael. iii. 23 

 Tpe(f)eiv pev rovs miTepas neXapyol yeyijpaKOTas /cat ideKovin Ka\ 

 epfXtTTjaav' KeXevei, Se avroiis popos dudparriKos ovbe eis tovto, dXXa (htlu 

 TovTcov (f)v<ns' 01 avTol Se Ka\ to. tavTOiv iKyova (})iXov<n, k. t. X. Origen, 

 C. Celsum, iv evae^ecrrepovs eivm tovs nfXnpyois raiv avdpojnwv. Cf. Fab. 

 Aesop. y(u)py6s Kai neXnpyos, Fab. loo, loob (ed. Halm), Babr. xiii 

 ovK elp\ yepavos, oi anopov unracpdelpu} \ neXapyos elpi (xr] XP^W M^ a-rjpatvei) | 

 TTTrjvmv neXapybi evafjifcrTnTOS Cv^^ I '''^^ fpbv Tidrjia) Trarepa Kal voarjXevoo. 



Cf. Soph. El. 1058. See also verb avTineXapye'iv, Suidas, Zenob. i. 94, 

 Sec, and UtXapyiKoi yop-oi, Hesych., Suid., &c. The Stork as a primeval 

 law-maker is alluded to in Ar. Av. 1353, perhaps also ibid. 121 3. Hence 

 the Stork was honoured by the Egyptians, as an emblem of piety : Ael. 



X. 16, Horap. ii. 55 (f)iXoTruTopa (SovXupevoi a-r^prjvai avdpwnov, neXapyuP 

 ^a)yp(i(povcnv. Iv to'i^ aKTjTTTpnts dvayrepco piu rreXapybv TvnovaL, KaTarepa) 

 8e nordpu'v "ltttvov. (Cf. Schol. in Ar. Av. I.e.) Cf. Phile, (vi.) 158 : Plin. 

 X. (23) 33 ; Juv. Sat. i. 116 ; Porph. De Abst. iii. 11 ; Publius ap. Petron. 

 Sat. 55 ciconia etiam grata, peregrina, hospita, Pietaticultrix, gracilipes, 

 crotalistria. 



How the Storks teach their children to fly, Plut. ii. 992 B Ka\ roh ireXap- 

 yibevaiu opds en\ twv reywv a>s 01 rtXeioi TrapoPTes dpaneipci>pepoLS vcprjyoiprai 



TTjP TTTTJaiP. 



Destroys serpents, and hence honoured by the Thessalians. Arist. 

 Mirab. 23, 832 nepl QeTraXiav ppT]p.ovevov(Tip o(f)eis ^cooyoprjdrjpai toctovtovs 

 ojcrre, et pf] vtto rap nfXapycop dpj]povpTO, eK;^;a)pr5o-ai ap avrovs. Sto 5?j Koi 

 TtpuxTi. TOVS TreXapyovs, koX Kreipeip ou popos' Kin fdp ti? KTelpr], epo^^oi Tois 

 avTois yiverai olcrntp Ken 6 dp8pocf>i)pos : see also Plut. De Isid. c. 74> 

 Symp. viii. 7, Plin. x. (23) 33, Solin. De Thessal. Cf. Juv. Sat. xiv. 74 

 serpente ciconia pullos, Nutrit et inventa per devia rura lacerta ; Virg. 

 G. ii. 320. 



The Stork as food, Hon Sat. ii. 2, 50, and Scholia; cf. Corn. Nepos, 

 ap. Plin. X. (23) 30, Mart. Ep. xiii. 



