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AAEKTPYQN (continued}. 



EvpeoTT/;, Mnaseas ap. Ael. xvii. 46 at /uei/ ovv dXcKropiftes ev r<w TTJS "H^ys 

 vep.oi>Tai Vfui, ol 8e ev 'HpaK\eovs ol T0)vde yaperai I cf. Plut. ii. 696 K, Paus. 

 ii. 148. 



Ael. N. A. ii. 30, how a new-purchased cock, if carried thrice 

 round the table, does not seek thereafter to escape. Ib. iii. 31, how 

 the lion fears the cock, and how the latter frightens the basilisk 

 to death : for which reason travellers in Libya take a cock along with 

 them. Cf. ibid. vi. 22 e^iora 8e TO> p,ev Xeoj/ri nvp KOI aXe/crpucoi/ : Aes. 

 Fab. 323 ; Plut. De Inv. iv (Mor. 650, 5), Sol. Anim. xxxii (Mor. 1201, 

 23). Hence also the use of a Cock to destroy the Lion-weed, 17 \eov- 

 rfios Tr6a=opopdyxri, Geopon. ii. 42. 3. A confusion is possibly indicated 

 here with the Galli, priests of Cybele ; according to Varro, De R. R. 

 c. 20 (Nonius, s. v. mansuetum), when the Galli saw a lion, tympanis 

 ...fecerunt mansuetum: for other important references see Mayor's 

 note to Juv. viii. 176. Note further that a mystical name for the Sun 

 was Aeo>i>, and that those who participated in the rites of Mithra were 

 called Lions ; Porphyr. De Abst. iv. 16. Niclas, the learned editor of 

 the Geoponica (ed. 1781), and certain other historians quoted by him, 

 finding that a lion in Bavaria evinced no terror at the sight of a Cock, 

 but killed and ate the bird, still remained faithful to the old tradition, 

 asserting that that lion's spirit must have been broken by captivity : 

 scimus quam vim habeat consuetude ; cum diu in galli vicinia detentus 

 esset, quid mirum, si eum ferre didicerit, &c. ! 



Paus. ii. 34. 2 ; at Methana (Troezene) a Cock with white wings was 

 torn in two by two men as a charm to protect the vines from the wind 

 Aty, cf. J. G. Frazer, Folk-lore, i. 163, 1890. See on Sacrifices of the 

 Cock, Sir J. G. Dalyell's Darker Superstitions of Scotland, 1835 ; Sir 

 S. Baker, Nile Sources, pp. 327, 335, c., &c. 



On d\eKTpvofj.avTfia } see Lucian's Callus, De Dea Syr. xlviii, Cic. De 

 Div. ii, Plin. x. (21) 24; cf. Mem. Acad. Inscr. vii. 23, xii. 49; Hopf, 

 Thierorakel, pp. 161-163. 



How some cannot abide a cock or a hen, Plut. fr. viii. 10 (12. 23). 



The Cock as a weather-prophet, Ael. vii. 7, Plut. Mor. 129 A, 

 Theophr. De Sign. i. 17, Arat. Progn. 960 (228), Geopon. i. 3, 8. 



How the flesh of a fowl absorbs molten gold, Plin. xxix. 25. 



Is hostile to drrayds, Ael. vi. 45. 



Proverb and Fable. 



d\KTpvovos KoiXiav exftv, Ar. Vesp. 794 (i.e. the stomach of an 

 ostrich, to swallow pebbles), cf. Suid. 



O.\fKT(t>p TTlWt KflU OVK OUpft, Suid. q.V. 



\fj6ovo-i yap TOI Kai/e'/LKoi/ 8ieoSot 6rjKfiav opviv, TT\T)V orav TOKOS 

 Soph. fr. 424. 



