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Phile 736, Geopon. xv. i, 30, Solinus, c. 37, Philostr. V. Apollon. ii. 14, 

 Stobaeus 98, Priscian in Perieges. p. 393. Cf. Physiol. Syrus, where 

 the stone is called WTOVLKOV, a corruption of CVTOKIOV or VKVTOKIOV : cf. 

 Eustath. Hexaem. p. 27, Epiphan. De Duodecim Gemmis, &c., ed. 

 Romae, 1743, p. 30, Marbod. Lapidarium, 339-391 (King's Ant. Gems, 

 p. 404). See also, for mediaeval and other references, Boch. Hieroz. 

 ii. 312-316, and N. and Q. (8) v. 518, 1894. The Eagle with its stone, 

 an Egyptian symbol of security, Horap. ii. 49. 



Proverb and Fable. Fable of Fox and Eagle, Archiloch. fr. 86-88 

 (no), Aes. Fab. 5 ; Ar. Av. 652. Hence according to Rutherford 

 (Babrius p. xlvii), the proverb ahrbs ev TTOTCIVOIS, Pind. N. iii. 77 (138); 

 alerbs ev vetyeXaiai, Ar. Eq. 1013, Av. 978, 987, fr. 28, and Schol. ; applied 

 by the oracle to the Great King (cf. Ezek. xvii. 3), Schol. in Ar. Eq. 1010 ; 

 cf. Zenob., Suid. eVt TO>V SucraXcorooi/, Trapoaov derbs ev ve<pe\ais &>v ov% dXiV- 



KCTOI : for other explanations, see Steph. Thes. 



derbv i7TTa<r6ai 8iSd(n<eis, Suid., Zenob. ii. 49 ; cf. Pseudo-Plutarch, 

 Prov. 25 avev Trrepwv forels lirravQai : hence, according to Rutherford, 

 the fable of the Eagle and Tortoise, Babr. cxv, Aes. 419 ; cf. Diog. L., 

 ii. 17, 10. 



alerbv Kavdapos /uaieu(ropu, Ar. Lys. 696 : eVi rS>v rifia)povju,ei>a>j/ TOVS 

 p.tiovas irpoKardp^avTas KCIK.OV. \eyerai yap ra a>a roO deroO d(pavifiv 

 6 KavOapos, Suid.: cf. Ar. Pax, 133, and Schol., Lys. 695, Aes. Fab. 7, 

 Keller, op. c. p. 269. 



The oracle of Action, Herod, v. 92. 



Fable of Eagle shot with its own feathers, Aesch. Myrm. fr. 123, 

 cf. Schol. in Ar. Av. 808, Aes. Fab. 4. The Eagle and the Archer, 

 Bianor, Gk. Anthol. ii. p. 143. 



derbs Kal /SatriXiVKoy, Plut. Mor. ii. 806 E. The Fighting-cock and the 

 Eagle, Babr. v ; the Eagle and Lion in partnership, Babr. xcix ; the 

 Eagle mindful of benefits, Aes. 6, 92, 120, Ael. xvii. 37, whence the 

 proverb aUnov x<*P iv eicrivfiv, Apost. Cent. i. 78 ; cf. Tzetz. Chil. iv. 302. 



The tame Eagle of Pyrrhus, Ael. ii. 40 ; the Eagle that saved Tilgamus 

 of Babylon, Ael. xii. 21 ; that saved Aristomenes, Paus. iv. 18. 5 : 

 cf. Antip. Sidon. xcii in Gk. Anthol. ii. 33 : see also Ael. vi. 29, Plin. 

 x. (5) 6: cf. Marx, Gr. Marchen, 1889, pp. 29-50. 



On Hawking with trained Eagles in India, Ctesias, fr. n (ed. 

 Miiller), Ael. iv. 26 ; in Thrace, Ael. ii. 42 ; cf. also Leo Africanus and 

 Tzetzes Chiliad, iv. 134. On Eagles trained for Falconry, see (e.g.) 

 Scully, Contr. to the Ornith. of E. Turkestan, Stray Feathers, vi. p. 123, 

 1876; also Yule's Marco Polo, Schlegel's Fauconnerie, &c. 



Representations of Eagles. On Babylonian processional sceptres, 

 Herod, i. 195. On the sceptre of the Persian kings, Xen. Cyrop. vii. 



