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XEAIAAN {continued). 



p. 578, Clem. Alex. Strom, v. p. 238, &c. Vide Class. Rev. 1 891, pp. 

 I, 230. 



On Swallows commonly building within the house, consult Darnel, 

 Tour through Greece, p. 40, 1819, and recent travellers: on their 

 entering ancient temples, cf. Clem. Alex. Protrept. iv. 52. 



How the Swallows restrain the overflow of the Nile : Thrasyllus in 

 Aegyptiac. ap. Plut. De Fluv. Nil. ii. 11 59 yewSavrcn be koL aXXoi Xt'^ot, 

 KoK\a)Tes KoKovyLivoC tovtovs, Kara Tt)u dae^eiav tou NeiXov, a-vWtyovaai 

 ^eXtSdre?, KaraiTKevd^ovcn to Trpoaayopevofxevov ^eXtbui'Lov Te'i}(Oij oirep enexfi 

 Tov vStiTOS Tov po'i^ovj Ku'i ovK (Q KaroKKviTpS (^delpfcrdni t>]v \a3pav. Cf. 

 Plin. X. (33) 49. Cf. also Ogilby's Fables of Aesop, 1651, p. 54, ciL N. 

 and Q. (7) v. p. 346. 



There is perhaps an allusion to this legend in the story of the building 

 of the Te'ixos in Ar. Aves, in which account we may note the references 

 not only to the Swallow but to Egypt and Egyptian birds. This con- 

 jecture is partly based on Rutherford's demonstration (supra cit.) that 

 there is no distinct reference to mud-;z<?j-/-building on the part of the 

 Swallow in v. 1 1 5 1 . 



White Swallows. Arist. H. A. iii. 12, 519 othv -^vxri y'lyvrjTni. pdWov, 

 \evKos yiveTui. Cf. De Color, vi. 798, Theophr. De Sign. vi. 2, Alex. 

 Mynd. ap. Ael. x. 34. A White Swallow in Samos (connected with 

 the story of i-ecovered sight), Arist. ap. Ael. xvii. 20, Antig. Mirab. 

 120 (132). 



Is hostile to bees, Ael. i. 58 (cf. ibid. v. 11, Phile, 650) ol be [/^eXtrroup- 

 yoY] TTjv \ekih6va albol t^? /jovcriKJjs (cf. Ael. vi. 1 9) ovk dnoKTeivovaL, Kniroi 

 paSlcos av airrju tovto 8pd(Tni>Tes' andxp'] be civto'ls KcoXveiv Trjv p^eAtSdra 

 TrXyja-iou ra>v (rip^XaJV Ka\iai> vnonrj^ai. Cf. also Virg. G. iv. 15 ; Chaucer, 

 P. of Fowles, 353, 'the swalow, mordrer of the bees small,' &c. Cap- 

 tures TtTTiyes, Ael. viii. 6, Plut. ii. 976 C, Phile, 713 ; cf. Even, xiii, supra 

 cit., p. 186. Hostile to (riX(pai : Ael. i. ^y al alXcjinL to. cod dbiKoiJcnv' ovkovv 

 al prjTepes aeXivov Koprju Trpoj^aXXofTui tcop ^pecpcov, kol eKeiuais to ivTevBev 

 a^uTd ea-Tiv : cf. Phile, 738, Geopon. xv. I. Is fond of ivy (a Dionysiac 

 plant) Eurip. Alcm. fr. 91 ttoXvs b' dvelprre Kiacros, ev(pv>]s /cXdSoy, | x^Xiboviou 

 fiovaeiov. 



In Augury. — Ael. X. 342 Tipdrai be tj x^^^^o)v Beols pvxion Kn\'A(ppoblTr]. 

 Swallows nesting in the general's tent were (very naturally) an evil 

 omen, as in the cases of Alexander, son of Pyrrhus and Antiochus, Ael. 

 1. c. : but by returning to the citadel foretold the safe home-coming of 

 Dionysius (1. c). See also Ar. Ly^s. yyo dXX' onoTav ttttj^oxtl x^^i-b6ves 

 els eva x^pov \ tous enoTrns (pevyovcrai, anocrxaiVTai Te (paXrjTwv | Tj-aiiXa KnKa>v 

 f(TTai, ra S' vnepTepa vepTepa di^aei | Zeus v^i^pepeTrji \ . . . rjp be bia(TTu>aiv 

 Koi dvanraPTai nrepvyecraiv | e^ Upov vaoio ;^eXiSd»/es', ovKeTi bo^ei \ opveov ovb^ 

 oTiovv KaTaTTvyciiveaTepov dvai : the above passage is entirely mystical 



