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TAQI {cojiiiiiiied). 



Tiryns, Paus. ii. 17, 6) as Queen of Heaven (cf. Eur. Hel. 1096) from 

 its stcuTy tail (Hehn) : cf. Ovid, Met. xv. 385 lunonis volucrem, quae 

 Cauda sidera portat ; ibid. i. 723 ; Juv. vii. 32 ; Stat. Silv. ii. 4, 26 ; 

 Claudian, Eutrop. ii. 330. Cf. also Joh. Lydus, De Menss. p. 66 /cat 

 raSiva rfjv opvida to'ls lepols ttjs "Upas 01 cfivatKol Sidoaaiu, oiovel jov 

 aa-Tepanrop depa, fJToi ovpavov. Cf. also Lucian, De Domo, xi. p. 908 ; 

 Hemsterh. ad Nigr. i. p. 247. The Peacock is associated with Hera 

 on coins also of Cos, Halicamassus, &c. On a Roman zodiac (Millin, 

 Galer. Mythol. pi. xxix. fig. 86) a Peacock comes after Capricorn, 

 coinciding with the Athenian month Gamelion, the month (Hesych.) of 

 Hera; cf. Boetticher, Philologus xxii. p. 399, 1S65, Pyl, Der Zwolf- 

 gotterkreis im Louvre, Greifswald, 1857, &c. [The association of Hera 

 vi^ith the month Gamelion (Jan.-Feb.) is due to the fact that this was 

 the month of the sign Aquarius ; and the connexion in turn between 

 Hera and Aquarius is connected with the fact that the Full Moon 

 stood in that sign when the Sun was in Leo, in the month of Zeus, at 

 the season of the Olympic festival.] 



The story of Argus, Mosch. Id. ii. 58, Ovid, Met. i. 720, Dion. De 

 Avib. i. 28 (ppovpos ovTos [6 rawy] rjv ttjs 'lovs, rjuiKa "Hpa Kar avrrjS 

 f X^aXfTTaivev' 'Epprjs 6 avuXev avTuv, Knl reXevTrjaaPTOs, avr]Kf.v opviv t] yr) 

 Ta>v 6(fi6aXpa>v e;^oi'Ta ra arjpua tu>v npoadev. Hence a Scholiast in 

 Ar. Av. 102 suggests (sed hyeme gallica frigidior est haec coniectura, 

 Bochart) Taws 6 Trjpevs' napa to rrjpflv ti)v Ico. 



On Peacocks in Athens, in the time of the Persian Wars, Antiphon 

 ap. Athen. ix. 397 c tovtovs Tpe(j>€iv Arjpov t6v TlvpiXapnovs koI noXXovs 

 TTapayivfcrdaL Kara ttoOov Ti)s tojv opvlBcov deas eK re AaKeSaipovos Kcii 

 QeTTuXias Kol aTTOvtqv noulcrdai. rSiv <aa>v peraXa^eiv . . . aXXa ras pev 

 vovprjvias 6 ^ovXopevos eia-jjei, ras S' aXXas fjpepas ft tis eXBoi ^ovX6pei/os 

 dedaaadai, ovk €(ttlv oo-tis eVi^p^e. Kal ravra ovk ex^Oes ouSe Trpcirji/, dXX' errj 

 TrXeov t] TpinKovrd eariv : cf. Ael. V. 21. Its rarity at the time is 

 suggested in Ar. Av. 102, 270 : but already a nickname in Ar. Ach. 

 63 ; cf. Strattis, MaxeS. 7, ap. Athen. 654 F noXXcbv (pXvdpcov Ka\ raav 

 dvTa^ia, 



Its former rarity and subsequent abundance, Antiph. ap. Athen. ix. 

 397 3- "^^^ raav pev ojs ana^ tls ^evyos rjyayev povov \ cnrdviov oi> to )(prjpn 

 nXeiovs S' dal vvv tcov oprvyav (at Rome), cf. Eubul. 3. 259 ; for other 

 citations, see Athen. xiv. 6s4e-655 3-j fripaivTo 8e t6v I'ippiva Kn\ top 

 GrjXvv bpaxpHiv pvpiwv, Antiph, ap. Ael. v. 21 ; cf. also Plut. i. 160 d, 

 Plin. X. (20) 23, Varro, R. R. iii. 6, Macrob. Sat. iii. 13, &c. 



On the probably independent introduction of Peacocks into Rome, 

 cf. Hehn, op. c. 



The Peacock is an Indian bird, Aelian passim, Lucian, Navig., &c. ; 

 and was bred for the 'Indian' King, Ael. xiii. 18 eV to'ls TrapaBeiaois 



