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♦OINIH {continued). 



An Indian version, Dion. De Avib. i. 32 aKr'jKoa 5/, as irapa rois ^Iv^oh 

 opvis Hr] yoveaiv cirep Koi pi^eccs X'^P'S' v(f)i<TTdp€vos, (f)oivi^ rovvopa, Kcii ^toiv 

 (jiarnp eVt nXe'LO-Tov kqI pera Trdar]! d0o/3iaj aurou, wy oi/Ve to^oh ovre Xldois 

 ovre Kokdpois rj Trciyan tmv dfSpaiU ti kut avTUiv TTOielv Treiponpfvau. 'O Se 

 OdvaTos avTM rrjV dpX']V noie'i Trjs ^co^s" 7]v yap Tvore yijpdcras npoi tus nTrj(jets 

 eavTov l8t] vcdOiarepov^ rj ras avyas tcov oppdrcov eXaaaovpivas, e(f) vy^rjXrjs 

 n(Tpas Kdp(pr] (TvXXe^as nvpdv riva tijs TeXevr?]s, i] Ka\idi> crvvTidrjai Tijs 

 fu)f}y, rjv iv peaa Kadrjpevov Toii (poiviKos 17 tcov {jXiiiKav aKrlvaiv Kara0Xeyfi 

 BeppoTtjs, ovTco df 8ia(pdapiVTOs avrov veos /« rrjs recppas aiidis erepos 

 yiverai ^oim^ aai to?s irarpcpois edeai xprJTai, wore vno Trjs rjXiaKrjs pdvov 

 avyrjs, narpos re koi prjTpos X'^P'-^i Tof opviu yivecrdai tovtov. Cf. Physiol. 

 Syr., c. xvi (who adds that the Phoenix builds its nest in the month 

 Pamnuth, s. Faminoth, a Coptic word); Epiphan. in Physiol, c. xi, 

 Eustath. Ant., p. 29 (ed. Lugd. 1677), Pseudo-Hieronym., p. 219 (ed. 

 Venet. 1772). 



Chaeremon, fr. 16 enavTos' (po'ivi^. Horap. i. 34 t'jXlov ea-Th 6 (f)o'ivt^ 

 (Tvp^oXov .... yl/'vx'jv Se ivTavda ttoXvv xpovov biarpi^iovaav (BovXopevoi. 

 ypd\l/ai, i} nXrjppvpnv, (poiviKa to opveov ^(oypa(f)ov(Tiv ; ibid. 35 Kai tov 

 Xpovicas 8e dno ^ivqs eTri.8i]povPTa StjXovvtss, ndXiv (^ci'iVLKa to opveov ^coypa- 

 (f)ov(TLV : ib. ii. 57 dnoKaTdaTafriu Se TroXvxpduiou ^ovXopeuoi arjpfjvai, 

 (f)olviKa TO opviov ^(oypa(Poii(riv' €K€~lvos yap ore yevvaTai, dnoKaTd(TTa(jis 

 ylveTGi irpaypdraiv. 



A symbol of long life, Prov. ^i' pr] (^o'lvikos eTij jSicotri;, Luc. Hermot. 53 

 (I5 793) ; cf Job xxix. 18, where for sand read Phoenix. 



Cf. also Nonnus Dion. xl. 394 '^''"' ^vXa KrjaevTa (pepcop ynpyj/cowxi- 

 Tapcra | x'^'fTf;? (ro(f)6s opvis in (v68pa> aeo ^copio \ (polvi^, Teppa (Bioio (pepcov 

 avToaTTOpov apx^jv \ TiKTerai, laoTVTToio xpoi'oi' ndXiv ayperos (Ikojv | Xi'cra? 

 K iv TTvpX yvjpas, dpfl^eTai eK nvpbs r^^r]v. See also the PJioenix of 

 Claudian ; Auson. Id. xi ; Ovid, Met. xv. 402 ; Senec. Ep. xlii ; Pompon. 

 Mela, iii. 9 ; Lactant. (?) Carm. Phoenice ; Lucian, iii. 27, 276, 350 ; 

 Solin. Polyhistor. c. 36 ; Clem. Rom. Ep. i ad Corinth, c. 24, p. 120, &c. 

 Late apparitions of the Phoenix, Plin. x. 2 ; Tacit, vi. 28 ; Dio C. Ivii ; 

 Suidas ; Tzetz. Chiliad, v. 6. A new Phoenix-period is said to have 

 commenced A. D. 139, in the reign of Antoninus Pius; and a recru- 

 descence of astronomical symbolism associated therewith is manifested 

 on the coins of that Emperor. 



Various remedies were to be obtained from its nest, Plin. xxix. 9 

 (Irridere est vitae remedia post millesimum annum reditura monstrare). 

 For further references, oriental and classical, see Bochart, Hieroz. ii. 

 coll. 818, 849. 



On the Phoenix as an astronomical symbol of a cyclic period, see 

 (int. al.) Marsham, Canon. Chron. p. 9, 387 ; Creuzer's Symb. i. p. 438, 

 ii, p. 163 ; Lewis, Astr. of Anc, p. 283 ; Kenrick's Egypt of Herod., 



