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TrepdcrifJLOs. (Cf. Arist. H. A. 32, 619 b v-^ov 8e irererai, OTTCO? eVi 

 TOTTOV Kadopa' dionep 6elov ol avBpwnoi (pacriv flvai JJLOVOV ra>v 

 opVQ)v.) Opp. Venat. i. 281 aleros aWcpioicnv firiBixttv yvdXotaiv. Quint. 

 Sm. iii. 354 olu>v5>v Trpocpepea-Taros. Opp. Hal. ii. 539 o<rcroi> yap Kovcpouri 

 /ier' ola>vol<riv avaKres, cu'eroi. Phile, De Aq. vty id p opos, KaprioTo? 6pvida>v, 

 TrnjvoKpdroop. Eurip. fr. 1049 (Cram. An. Gr. Oxon. ii. 452) 

 aero?, 6 Xwcrroff OVTOS KOI <pi\otve<rTaTos. 



derog 6 *uX. yvfjorios. Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619 peyiaTos TO>V 



jjieifav re rrjs (pfjvrj?, TO>V 8' dfrav KOI jJ/zidXios', ^pa>/za {-avdds, (paiWrai 5e 

 oXiyaKis coo-Trep 117 Ka\ovp.evrj Kvpivdis I cf. Plut. Amat. iv. 9 ; vide S. V. 

 fAop<f>i/6s. This is usually taken, as is also the xpuo-afros or do-repi'as of 

 Ael. H. A. ii. 39, to mean the Golden Eagle, Aq. Chrysaetus (L.) ; the 

 former birds are however said by both authors to be very rare, whereas 

 the Golden Eagle is the commonest eagle in Greece (Heldreich). 

 Aristotle's statement as to its size is modified by Pliny (H. N. x. 3, 

 media magnitudine). The passage is obscure and mythical, as shown 

 by the allusions to Kvpivdis and (pyvr) : Pliny's phrase solumque in- 

 corruptae originis is a literal but perhaps incorrect translation of 

 yvrjo-ios. Many of the general references to aeros apply more or less 

 closely to Aq. Chrysaetus^ e. g. Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619, its nesting 

 habits ; vi. 6, 563 ri/a-ei rpla <oa, eVa>aei Trepi rpiaKovra ijpepas I ix. 32, 

 619 b TOVS dao"viro8as OIIK vdi>s Xap-/3ayei, aXX' els TO nfftiov edcras 7rpoeX$eii>, 

 this last statement being, however, very obscure : Ael. ii. 39, &c., &c. 

 On the other hand accounts of the capture of snakes and stories of 

 the combat with the Dragon (Arist. H. A. ix. i, 609 Tpocpyv yap Troiemu 

 TOVS ofais 6 dtTos : Ael. xvii. 37 ; II. xii. 200 ; Aesch. Choeph. 245 ; Soph. 

 Antig. 1 10-126 ; Nonn. Dion. xl. 476 ; Nic. Theriac. 448 ; Acs. Fab. 120 ; 

 cf. Virg. Aen. xi. 751 ; Hor. Carm. iv. 4 ; Ovid, Met. iv. 712 ; Flav. Vopisc. 

 De Aurel. iv), are based on the habits of Circaetus gallicus, the Short- 

 toed Eagle, which feeds on reptiles, and partly also of the Lammer- 

 geier. In Imhoof-Blumer and Keller's Thierbilder we have coins of 

 Chalcis in Euboea showing an Eagle with the snake in its beak, and 

 also (pi. v. 9) a similar coin of Cyrene in which the bird's head is 

 evidently a Lammergeier's. 



The Vultures were frequently confused under the name oVros, e. g. 

 Aesch. Ag. 1 38 o-Tvyel Se delnvov aler&v : as also in the story of Pro- 

 metheus, e.g. Hes. Th. 523; Aesch. Pr. V. 1022; Pr. Sol. ap. Cic. Q. 

 Tusc. ii. 10 ; Apoll. Rh. ii. 1254, 1263, iii. 851 ; Lucian, Prom. 20 (i. 203) ; 

 D. Deor. i. i (i. 205), &c., &c. ; and as in the story of the death of 

 Aeschylus, Ael. vii. 16, Plin. x. 3, Valer. Max. ix. 12. 2, Didym. Chalc. 

 ed. Ritter, 1845, pp. 84 &c., Hesych. Onomast. c. 16, where the derds was 

 evidently a Lammergeier, on whose propensity to feed on tortoises v. 

 Tristram, Fauna of Palestine, p. 94, see also Ibis, 1859, p. 177 ; cf. Acs. 



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