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«t>OINI= {continued). 



p. 100; Larcher's Herod, ii. p. 320; Encycl. Metrop., Art. Herodotus 

 (8vo ed.), p. 249; Drummond in Class. Journal, xiv. 319; Ideler, 

 Enchir. Chron. Math. i. p. 186. See the Bhagavad Gita, viii, for an 

 account of the similar cyclical ' day and night of Brahma.' For a 

 corresponding Chinese tradition, see Martini, Histor. Sinica, cit. Coray 

 ad Heliod. p. 201 ; Creuzer, Symb. ii. 164 ; on the Persian account, cf. 

 Dalberg, 'Simorg, der Persische Phonix,' in Von Hammer's Fundgruben 

 des Orients, i. p. 199. See also Henrichsen, De Phoenicis fabula apud 

 Graecos, Romanos, et populos orientales, Hafniae, 1825, 1827. 



In Aristid. ii. p. 107 (Jebb) the Phoenix is called 'Ij/Sikoj opi/ir. 



For representations of the Phoenix, see Jomard's Descr. de I'Eg. 

 Antiq. i. c, 5. 



The Phoenix has been taken by Cuvier, Lenz, and others, for the 

 Golden Pheasant, — a coarse materialising of a mythic symbol (Hehn). 

 On the study and interpretation of such sacred enigmas of the ancients, 

 see Grote's Hist. i. c. 16. 



The subject deserves to be studied under many heads ; for example, 

 the varying terms assigned to the Phoenix-period, and the various 

 astronomical cycles thereby indicated ; the relation of the Phoenix to 

 the Palm-tree (Eg. dennu = (po'ivi^ to opveov, be?t!ie = (^oivi^ to 8iv8pov, 

 Lauth, Sitzungsber. Bayer. Akad., 1876, p. 94) in connexion with the 

 whole symbolic imagery of the latter ; the relation of the Phoenix to the 

 Heron (Lauth, I.e.; cf. supra s.v. PairiG), involving also the depicting 

 of the Soul as the Phoenix and the question of the term assigned to the 

 Soul's wanderings. The whole subject is of great complexity, and lies 

 beyond the scope of this book. 



♦PYn'AOI. An unknown bird, obscurely referred to in A.r. Av., with 

 a play on the word 'Phrygian'; 763 (ppvylXos opvis ivdab' co-tm, 

 Tov ^i\r]povos yevovs : and 873 (f>pvyi\(o 2a,3(i^tw. I conjecturc it 

 to be a form cognate to ■jTepyoOXoi', cnrepyouXos, &c., and to mean 

 a Sparrow ; in which case (f)pvyL\a 2a/3afia) is an exact parallel to 

 (TTpovda peydXr] prjrpl Beuiv. Supposcd also to be Connected with 

 1^2ii. /ritigilla. 



4>PYNOAO'rOI, s. ^p\Jvo\6yo% {^(^pvvrj, a toad). 



A kind of Hawk, probably a species of Harrier, Circus sp, 



Arist. H. A. IX. 36, 620 01 8e Xe'ioi /cat ol (ppvi>o\6yoL' ovtoi ev(3ia>TaT0i 

 Kn\ ;^^ayLiaXo7r7-^rai. Vide S. v. eXeios. 



Of the various hawks that feed on reptiles, the epithet ' low-flying ' 

 seems best applicable to the Harriers. 



♦flKl'QN" opvLs noios, Hesych. 



