nEAAProi— nEAEiA 129 



riEAAPrOI {continued). 



Myth and Legend. — Hostile to a'idvia, Ael. iv. 5, Phile, 680; to 

 vvKT€pis, Ael. vi. 45. Uses opLyavov as a remedy, Arist. H. A. ix. 6, 

 612, Ael. V. 46, Plin. viii. 27. How the bats (wKrepites) render the 

 Stork's eggs unfruitful, and how the Stork defeats them with a leaf of 

 TrXdravos, Ael. i. 27> Geopon. xiii. 13, xv. i, 18; according to Anatol. 

 p. 298, a tortoise-bone is equally efficacious. A Stork's stomach is 

 a specific for the murrain of sheep and goats, Geopon. xviii. 1 1 ; cf. 

 Plin. xxix. 33. 



A young Stork, a prophylactic against ophthalmia, Plin. xxix. 38. 



A messenger of Athene (cf. epwSios), Porph. De Abst. iii. 5. 



Story of Alcinoe, an unfaithful wife : Ael. viii. 20 tovto awi^av 6 

 TreXapyos 6 olKerrjs ov)( VTre'peivfv, aXXa erifiupriae t(o Becnrorrj' TrpoanrjScop 

 yovv inrjpcxxje ti]S avOpinrov ti)v oip-ij/ : cf. Apostol. xiv. 15, p. 609. Story 

 of Heracleis, to whom the Stork, healed of a broken leg, brought next 

 year a magic pebble : ibid. viii. 22 t^v S' ovv Xldov '4vhov nov KareOeTo, 

 eira viiKTcop divirvLaddaa opa avyrjv Tiva Koi a'iyXr]v a(()Lelaau, Km KaT€Xdp.T7(TO 

 6 oIkos a)s eaKopiaSeicTTjs 8a8us : cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 31. The stone was 

 probably the stone Xup^j/u or XvxviTr]s, cf. Plin. xxxvii. (17) 103, and 

 Philostrat. V. Apoll. Tyan. ii, 14 neXapyol KaXids ovk av nrj^nivTo, pq npoTfpop 

 avTois fvappoaavres tov XvxvlTrjv Xldov : cf. also Lucian, De Dea Syr. 32 ; 

 Orph. Lith. 268. 



Metempsychosis : Alex. Mynd. ap. Ael. iii. 23 orav h yiipas a(piKcovTai, 

 irapeXQovTas avrois es ras QKeaviridas vrjcrovs dpeij3fiv rti e'ldq es dudpaynov 

 fjiop(}}i]v, Koi eiae^elas ye tJ)j is Toi/s yeivafievovs ddXov tovto i'cr;^eij', aXXios 

 re, ft Ti eyco voS), Koi vnoBtaOai twv Biav ^ovXopevatv toZto yovv tuiv dvdpa>- 

 770)1/ Ta>v {Keldi TO yevos evcrelSes kol octiov, fne). oii)( oiov re fjv iv rfj aXXrj yfj 

 1)0' T]Xi<o ToiovTov dia^iovv : cf. the Story of the birds of Diomede (s. v. 

 cpwSicjs), and see for accounts of similar superstitions in recent times, 

 Schwenk, Slav. IMythol. p. 129 ; cf. also August Marx, Griech. Marchen, 

 PP- 50-55) Stuttgart, 1889. 



riE'AEIA, s. ireXeids. Also TreX-rjids, 0pp. Cyn. i. 351. 



A Pigeon or Dove. The Epic word : used for nepia-Tepd also by 

 the Dorians (Sophron. ap. Athen. ix. 394 D), and by the lonians 

 (Hipp. 638. 8, 667. 3 : cf. \.z.\.. pal-umba. Commonly said to be 

 connected with TreXds, ttoXioV, &c. ; cf. Hesych. niXfuu' fiiXaivai 



TrepKTTfpai, and Eustath. Horn. p. 1262 niXeia de ovx dnXcos Trepi- 

 OTf/ad, fi'Sos fie Ti TrepKTTfpds, as rj Xe'^ts iTTi8r]Xol' neXuv yap to ptXdvi^ov, 



i^ uv Kill 6 TreXapyos. Nevertheless, the derivation appears to me 

 somewhat dubious; for all the wild pigeons, the Turtle-dove 

 excepted, are very much of a colour, and I do not think the 

 Greeks would have spoken of i/ack pigeons until they had got 



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