1 88 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



XEAIAilN {continued). 



elalu ev dyyeiois eylriXcofxevai Trafinav. Cf. Plin. x. (24) 34 in vicina abeunt 

 apricos secutae montium recessus, inventaeque iam sunt ibi nudae atque 

 deplumes; Claudian, Eutrop. i. 118 Vel qualis gelidis pluma labente 

 pruinis Arboris immoritur trunco brumalis hirundo. In reference to 

 the migration, see also Aesch. fr. 48 neSoiKos (i. e. ixeToiKos) x^^'-^'^"- 

 Arch, xxvi, Gk. Anth. ii. 86 alav oXrju vijaons re buTTTaixevt] av ;;(eXi8cov. 

 The Swallow as the bird of returning Spring : Hes. Op. et D. 568 (ii. 

 186) Tov 8e jxer opOpoyor] Ylavhi.ov\i wpjo )(f\i8a>v | e? ^fios di'dpoiTTon, eapos 

 Viov i(TTap.evoio. Simon. 74 (121) ap. Schol. Ar. Av. 1410 ny-yeXe KkvTO. 

 eapos dSvodpov, \ Kvavea x^^i-^ol. Stesich. fr. 45 (Bergk) ap. Eust. II. lo. 

 I OTav rjpos wpq KeXaSfj ;^fX(S(ii/. Ar. Pax 800 vp-vfiv, orav rjpiva pev (pavfj 

 Xe\i8d)V I e^opevq Ke\a8i]. Id. Eq. 419 aKe\f/a(j6e Trai8(s' ovx opdd' ; aipa 

 Via, x^Xibaiv. Id. Av. 714, &c. Ael. i. 52. Babr. 131. Cf. Ovid, Fasti, 

 ii. 853 Fallimur an veris praenuntia venit hirundo : Hor. Ep. i. 7, 13, 

 &c. Cf. also a well-known vase (first figured in Mon. Inst. Corn 

 Archeol. ii. pi. xxiv) with the inscription 'l5ou ;(eXtSa)i'. N;) tov 'Hpn/cXea. 

 Airrp. ' Eap >]8tj. 



How the Swallows come with the wind ;(eXtSoi/tns or Favonius,Theophr. 

 H. P. vii. 15, I, Plin. ii. 47. 



Artemid. p. 153 o^av 6e to eap TTapn^dXr] TrpcoTjj npocrficnv' ois tiv uttol 

 anoSeiKi'vovcrn tu>v epycuv eKacTTa, Kai OTnv ye (paivrjTat ovdenoTe ecrrrepas 

 aSft, dXX' euidev I'jXiov dvicrxovTos ovs av ^civTas KaraXapl^dvoi VTTopipvv- 

 CTKOvaa Ta>v epyayv : cf. Nonn. Dionys. iii. 13 Ka\ Xiyvprj, pepoTveaui avrea- 

 Tios, eiapi Kqpv^, \ opdpiov viTVov apepae XciXos Tpv^ovaa x^XiSav \ dvTL(pavt]S : 

 Apul. Florid, ii. 13 cantum hirundinibus matutinum ; &c., Sec. 



Hence invoked at the Spring festival of the Thesmophoria : Ar. 

 Thesm. I a> Zev, x^Xidcov apd ttotc (f)nvi]aeTai : cf. Ar. fr. 499 nvdov ;^eXiSa)i' 

 TrrjinK uttu (paiveTai (Eratosth. ap. Schol. Plat. p. 371 ; vide also Suid. 



S. V. HTTa). 



How the Swallow is visible in Egypt all the year, Herod, ii. 22, 

 Pausan. x. 4, 9 ; but never stays to nest in Daulis, the country of Tereus, 

 Pausan. 1. c. Neither does it visit Thebes, quoni^^m urbs ilia saepius 

 capta sit ; nor Bizya, in Thrace, propter scelera Terei, Plin. iv. (11) 18, 

 X. (24) 34 ; it goes, however, to tus /cara Qi'j^as, Babr. Fab. cxxxi. 



On Swallows used as messengers, Plin. x. (24) 34. 



Proverb. — pia ^f-^tSaji/ eap ov nniel, Arist. Eth. Nic. i. 6. 1098 (from 

 Cratin., according to Cramer, An. Par. i. 182) ; cf. Ar. Av. 141 7. 



The Rhodian Swallow Song, x^^'^Sovio-p.a, sung in the month Boe- 

 dromion (?), Athen. viii. 360 c r)X6\ rjXde x^Xibaiv, | KaXds mpas ("yov(Ta,\ 

 KaXovs eviavTovs, \ en\ yaarepa XevKa, \ enl va>Ta peXaiva | . . . dvoiy avoiye\ 

 Tav dvpav _;^;€XiSof I' | ov yap yepovTes \ ecrpev, dXXd TraiSi'a : emended by 

 Ilgen, Opusc. Phil. i. p. 165, Bergk, P. Lyr. iii. p. 671. Cf. Eustath. 

 1914, 45. 



