HEAEIA— HEAEKAN 



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HEAEKAN {contimicd). 



opos adt]\ovs yivea-dai Tovs Trporepou? toIs vcTTepois. lb. 597 b Spvis dye- 

 \aios, like the crane, the swan, and the little goose. lb. ix. 10, 614 b 

 oi Se TreXeKcives oi iv roii Trorafiols yi.v6p.evoi KaTanivovfTi ras /leydXas Koy^as 

 Koi Xeias' orav b iv T<Jo npo rijs koiX'uis tottco nerj/uaiv, e^fpovaiv, Iva 

 Xaa-Kovarajv ra Kpea e^aipovvres ea-diamv. A similar account in Arist. 

 De Mirab. 14, 831 b ; Antig. Hist. Mirab. 41 (47); Ael. iii. 20, 23, v. 35 ; 

 Apostol. Cent. 15; Phile, De An. (9), 215; Dion. De Avib, ii. 6 

 Kcil Tis koXttos avTols e^i'iprrjTM rrpo tcov arepvaiv, els ov anaaav Ttjv 

 Tpn(f)rjv fTTfiyofJievoL reus ffx^dWovcriv, ovre tuiv kt(vS)v ovre tmv aK\rjpS)V 

 fivuiv d7re;^o/^€j'ot, k.t.X.: cf. Plin. X. 47 (66) faucibus ipsis inest alterius 

 uteri genus. That the Pelican can render up its food from its 

 * pouch ' was much commented on by the ancients : hence the 

 Hebr. name kaath, lit. 'to vomit.' But the Pelican feeds on fish, 

 not (?) on shell-fish : and moreover P. crispus is common in Greece 

 and is not limited to the north. Hence various writers have doubted 

 the common interpretation, e.g. Gesner, Brandt (Descr. Animal. Rusti- 

 corum, 1836, p. 53), Van der Hoeven (Handb. d. Zool., ii. p. 396) and 

 especially Aubert and Wimmer (op. cit., i. p. 104), who suppose a 

 species of Heron to be meant. But the passage in Dionysius (s. v. 

 ircXeKli'os) is only applicable to the Pelican, and the latter is distin- 

 guished from e'pcoc^idy in Ael. v. 35, Phile, c. ix, &c. ; the Heron and the 

 Pelican seem however to be confounded by Plutarch, 1. c. 



Cicero (De Nat. D. ii. (49) 124) repeats the story under the name 

 Platalea, and Plin. (x. (40) 56) under that of Platea, names which rather 

 suggest the Spoonbill, to which the account may have been transferred, 

 the Pelican not occurring in Italy (Gallia hos septentrionali proxima 

 Oceano reddit, Plin. x. 47). 



The Pelican and its ' piety,' Ael. iii. 23. Cf. Horap. i. 54 rreXfKdva 6e 

 ypdcbovres, uvovv re fjbrj kol a(ppova crrjpaivovcriv' fmibi) 8vvdp.fvos iv Tois 

 vyj/rfKoTepoii TOTTOis KnTaTidecrSni ra eavrov ad, coanep koI to. Xonra tcov 

 Trererjvav, tovto ov 770ie7' aXXn yap Koi avopv^as y']V, eKfi KaTarideTai ra 

 ytwafxeva' onep imyvovTes avOpconoi, rco Tcmco (Hoos a([)68evpa ^ijpov TTfpirt- 

 Gincriv, w Ka\ TTvp {nro^dXXovcTi' dfacrdpevoi 6e 6 TreXeKuv tov Krnrvov, toIs 

 idiots TTTepoLS ^ovX6p.evos dnoal^ea-ai to nvp, iK toiv tvavr'nov koto. ti)v Klvrjcnv 

 i^dnrei avTo, vcp ov KaruKaiopevos to iavTov TTTfpd evavXXrjTTTvTfpos tols 

 KVvi]yoU yiverai' 81 i)v ahiav ovk ivofilaSr] iadUiv tovs upias avrov, irvei8r] 

 aTTa^anXcos vnep TiKvav Troidrai tov dyoi>va' AlyvnTLcov 6e ol XoittoI iadiovai, 

 XeyovTfS, OTi fir] koto, vovv ttjv p.dxr]v, &(nrep oi ;^7;^'aXd)7re/c€?, dXXa khtii 

 avninv 6 TreXfKciv noif'iTai. This statement follows an account of the 

 parental affection of ^'ywiXajir;;^ ; Lauth (Sitzungsb. Bayer. Akad., 1S76, 

 p. 105) shows that it is in part based on a confusion between two 

 Egyptian words, chemi, ' a pelican,' and chenii, ' ignorant.' The parental 

 affection of the Pelican is frequently referred to by the Fathers : cf. 



