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riEAEIA {confimicd). 

 the Chaldaean deluge-myth, cf. Euseb. Chron. Armen. i. p. 50, iSic, (S:c. ; 

 see also the representation on coins of Apamea, Eckhel, Doctr. Numm. 

 iii. 132, Friedlander, Kgl. Miinzkab. pi. ix, &c., &c. 



A similar explanation is given of the Dove of the deluge-myth. 



The Pleiades (as doves ?) fleeing before the hunter Orion, Hes. Op. 

 et D. 619. 



For references to the copious (and often unreliable) literature of 

 Pleiad-symbolism, see int. al., Pluche, Hist, du ciel, Dupuis, Orig. de 

 tous les cultes, Haliburton, New Materials for the Hist, of Man, 1863, 

 von Bunsen, Plejaden und Thierkreis, 1S79, Nitzsch in Od. v. 272, 

 &c., &c. 



How the soul of Ctesylla departed as a dove ; Nicand. ap. Anton. 

 Lib. i ; cf. Ovid, Met. vii. 370. 



The Pigeons of Dodona. Herod, ii. 55 m'Se Se AcoScomiui/ ^adt. nl 

 rrpofiavTies, 8vo neXeiddas fxeXaivas e'/c Qrj^iwv tcov AiyvnTiecov dvcnrTciaevas, 

 rfjv jxiv avTccov is Aifivrjv, rrjv Si wapa <T<^eas cnriKia-dai' l^ofitvr^v 8e fiiv 

 in\ (f)T]yuv, nvdd^aa-dni (jicovfj dvdpcoTrrjiT], as XP^^" f''/ p-'ivTrjiov avrodi Atos 

 yfveadai. Ibid. 57 TreXeuiSe? 8e poL 8ok€OV(ti K\rj6?jvni npos AooSovaicjOv 

 enl Tovdf al yvvcuKes, Stdri (iap^npoi rjaav' edoKeou 8e (T<pi opoiois opitcri 

 (j)6eyyea6ai . , . peXaivav 8e Xeyovres elvni ti)v 7reXfiaS« arjpaivovai on 

 AlyvTTTLr] J] ywfj rjv. Cf. Pausan. vii. 21, X. 12. On Alexander and the 

 doves at Ammon, cf. Curtius, iv. c. 7, Strabo, xvii. See also J. Arneth. 

 Ueber das Taubenorakel von Dodona, Wien, 1841 ; Perthes, Die 

 Peleiaden von Dodona, Progr. d. Progymn. zu Mors, 1S69; H. D. 

 Miiller, Philol. Anz. ii. p. 95, 1870; Lorenz, op. cit., p. 35; Creuzer, 

 Symb. iii. pp. 183, 217. 



According to Thrasybulus and Acestodorus, ap. Schol. 11. xvi. 233, 

 a dove had founded the oracle in the time of Deucalion. On the 

 pigeons of Dodona, see also Soph. Tr. 1710)? rfjv naXmnv (prjyov ov^rjani 

 TTOTf I Acddcovi 8i(Tcrcov €K TTeXeidSoov e(f)rj : also ap. Schol. Pind. fr. Paean. 

 58 (30) ; Diod. i. 13, iii. 71 ; Sil. Ital. iii. 678 ; Serv, in Aen. iii. 466, 

 Eel. ix. 13. According to Strabo, ap. Eustath. in Od., p. 1760, and 

 Geogr. vii. fr. la the priestesses were called TreXeto/naVrftr, cf. KopaKopdv- 

 Tiis. According to Philostr. Imagg. ii. 2>?) (387 k), a choir of priestesses 

 danced round an oak, on which sat a golden dove. Dion. Halic. Ant. 

 Rom. i. 14, 41 compares with the Dodonaean dove the ttZkos or 

 bpvoKo\diTTr]s of the oracle of Mars. The whole story is intricate and 

 confused. It seems clear that the priestesses were called neXeun (cf. 

 Paley, Aesch. Suppl. ed. 2, p. xiv) or TreXeiopdvreis ; and also that 

 the oracle was not essentially an augury or bird-oracle, but one in 

 which tree- worship, river- worship (cf. Macrob. v. 18), and thunder- 

 worship (cf. Mommsen, Gr. Jahresz. p. 432, &c.) were alike involved. 

 The doves of Dodona link on to the story of Deucalion, to the doves 



