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XEAIAflN {continued). 



and obscure. How Swallows that had built in Cleopatra's galley were 

 expelled by others before Actium, Plut. Anton. Ix, i. 944 a ; cf. Ant. and 

 CI., ' Swallows in Cleopatra's sails Have built their nests.' The Swallow 

 that fluttered round Alexander's head as an omen of treachery, Arr. 

 Anab. i. 25 t\]v yap )(€\i.86pn (rvvrpocjiov re eivai opviQa k<u evvovv dvBpanrots 



Kcn AaAoi- paWov fj o'XXjjj/ opvida. See Class. Rev. 1891, p. 231. 



A Sign of Rain. — Arat. Phen. 944 fj Xipurju irepi Srjda ;(eXtSoi'ej dta-aov- 

 Tfii I yncTTfpi TVTTTOVcrai avraii fiXevpeiiov vScop : cf. Theoph. Sign. vi. I, 

 Virg. G. i. 377- 



Fables. — The Swallow and the Nightingale, vide s. v. dTjSwr. The 

 Swallow and Eagle, Plut. ii. 223 F. The Wise Swallow and the Hen, 

 Aes. 342 (ed. Halm). The Crow and the Swallow, to pev aov KokXos 

 TTjv eapLvrjV oapav dv6(1, to Be ipov (raipa Koi ;(€i/icji't irapaTeiueTai, Aes. 415" 

 The Crow (or the Swans) and the Swallow, ti av enoirjaas, fl ttjv yXarrav 

 fiX^s, oTTov Tprjdeia-rjs ToaavTa XoXeir, Aes. 4 1 6, 416 b. The Swallow and 

 other Birds, Aes. 417, 417 b. The Sv>'allow building in the Law-court, 

 o'lpoi TTJ ^evj], OTi ev6a irdpTes diKniovvrai, povrj eycoye rjdiKTjpai, Aes. 4'^) 

 418 b : cf. Babr. 118. The Swallow out of due season, Babr. 131. 



XEAnNO<t>A'roi. A kind of Eagle or Vulture, Hes}xh. The name 

 suggests the Lammergeier. In Sparta the name ;^eX&)via/)7;s is 

 said to be now applied to Aqtiila imperialism but surely not to 

 the exclusion of the Lammergeier. 

 The Lammergeier does indeed eat tortoises, as has been mentioned 

 above ; and it may accordingly be held that the name ^fXcow^ciyo? 

 is manifestly so simple a descriptive term as to throw doubt on 

 my astronomical interpretation of the Eagle that slew the Serpent 

 or the Swan. But it is curious to note that the constellation of 

 the Tortoise is placed in very much the same relation to that of 

 the Eagle as is that of the Swan : moreover the Tortoise forms 

 part of the constellation Lyra, another name for which is the 

 Vulture, and to the latter ' bird ' the Eagle is said also to be 

 hosdle. It is only natural that those astronomical * hostilities ' 

 should be the most commented on, which are somewhat akin to 

 zoological fact or possibility. 



XE'NNION, s. xet'i'iwi'. 



A kind of Quail, eaten pickled by the Egyptians. 



Athen. ix. 393 c piKphv S' 1(jt\v oprlyiov : cf. Cleomen. and Hipparch. 

 ibi cttt., &c. Pall. Alex, xxi, Gk. Anth. iii. 119 ripel^ S' eadiopev kskXt]- 

 pivoi akpvpa TTiivra \ xevvia (cat Tvpov9, XV^°^ ohiaTu Xinrj. According to 

 Bent (Cyclades, 1885, p. 128) potted or pickled quails are still eaten in 



