6 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



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eggs, hatches two, and rears one, Musaeus ap. Arist. vi. 6, 563, Plin. 

 x. 4 ; a similar statement of iepa, Horap. ii. 99 TIKTWV yap rpia 6>a, TO li/ 

 \iovov eViXeyerai KOI rpe^ei, ra Se aXXa dvo K\a' TOVTO Se Trota, 5ta TO KOT' 

 TOV \povov TOVS oj/v^a? dno(3d\\iv, Kal eWeC$ei> /x) 8vvao-6ai TO. rpia 



How, when brooding, it goes without food, OTTOS M ap-nd^ TOVS TO>V 

 6rjpia)v o~Kvp,vovs (cf. Horap. i. 1 1). 01 re ovv oyv%es avTOv 8iao~Tpe(povTai oXrya? 

 Tj/j-epas, Kai. TO. Trrepa XevKm'veTai, &O~TC Kal rols TCKVOLS TOTC yivovrai 

 ou TTtii/Ta 6e Ta T>V der&v yevrj o/zoia Trepi ra reKva, aXX' 6 irvyapyos 

 ot S p,f\avfs fvrcKvoi TTCpl Trjv Tpo^v tlviv, Arist. H. A. vi. 6, 563. 



The sharp sight of the Eagle, opviduv o^uooTreWaTo?, and how its gall 

 mingled with honey is an ointment for the eyes, Ael. i. 42 ; Plin. xxix. 38, 

 &C. Cf. II. xvii. 674, Alciphr. iii. 59 yopybv TO /SXe/u/ua ; Prov. dfT&o'fs (3\f- 

 TreiV) Lucian Icarom. 14 (ii. 769), Hor. Sat. i. 3. 26, &c. How the Eagle's 

 offspring look straight at the sun, and the bastards, being by this test 

 discovered, are cast out, Ael. ii. 26, cf. Arist. H. A. ix. 34, 620, Antig. 

 Mirab. 46 (52), Lucan ix. 902, Lucian, Pise. 46 (i. 613), Sil. Ital. x. 107, 

 Petron. Sat. 120, Claudian III. Cons. Hon. Praef, 12, Plin. x. (3)4, Dion. 

 De Avib. i. 3, Apul. Florid, i. 2, Basil. Hexaem. viii. 6. 177, Eust. Hexaem. 

 viii. 6. 952, S. August. Mor. Manich. xvi. 50, Julian. Imp. Epp. 16 (386 C), 

 40 (418 d), Eunod. Ep. i. 18, id. Carm. ii. 150, Phile i. 14. Cf. Chaucer, 

 P. of Fowles, 331 'the royal egle . . . that with his sharpe look perceth 

 the sun.' On the Egyptian origin of this fable, see Keller, op. c. p. 268, 

 and cf. Horap. i. 6, II. The Solar Myth is also oriental, and in the 

 Rig-veda the sun is frequently compared to a Vulture or Eagle hovering 

 in the air. 



The Eagle is exempt from thirst, Ael. H. A. ii. 26 ovdenoTc deTot 

 OVTC Trrjyrjs Setrai OVTC y\i^(Tat KOvio~Tpas, aXXa Kal dtyovs dfjLfivwv eo~Ti '. 

 cf. Arist. H. A. viii. 18, 601 b ; but perishes of hunger (also an Egyptian 

 fable, Keller op. C. 267), yrjpdo-Kovo-i 8e Tols dfTols TO pvyxos avgdvfTai TO 

 avo) yap,^fovp,fvov del p.d\\ov } Kal T\OS Xi/iW aT:o6vr)(rKOVo~LV. cmXfyeTai 8e 

 TLS Kal nvflos, cos TOVTO 7rdo~)(fL 8ioTi avGpajirbs TTOT' &>v r)diKr]o~e evov, Arist. 

 H. A. ix. 32, 619. Cf. Antig. 46 (52), Horap. ii. 96 (where the Eagle is 

 said to be for that reason an Egyptian symbol for an old and starving 

 man), Epiphan. ad Physiol. c. 6, Plin. x. 14. 



It is however long-lived, paKpoftLos 8' eo-TtV drj\ov 8e TOVTO e/c TOU 

 iro\vv xpovov T ^ v veoTTiav TTJV avTrjv diapeveiv, Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619 b. 



It feeds on grass, Ael. ix. 10 (pottos oo-nfp Kal Aibs KK\r)rai), is poisoned 

 by o-vp.(pvTov, Ael. vi. 46, Phil. De An. Pr. 668, and in sickness eats 

 tortoises as a remedy, Dion. De Av. i. 3. 



Its hours of feeding : &pa de TOV epydfca-Qat aeTcS Kai TrereoAu an-' 

 dpio~Tov p-^XP 1 8ei\r]s' TO yap HwQev KadrjTai p-fXP 1 ^ypds ir\r)dvovo~T)s, Arist. 

 H. A. ix. 32, 619. 



