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De Arte Gramm. i. 25, Mayor in Cic. Nat. Deor. ii. 49, Hemsterh. ad 

 Lucian, i. 305, &c., &c. ; cf. Cicero, De Nat. Deor. 1. c., Martial xiii. 75. 

 How each carries a stone, $ %x flv Kct ' ( *iirvov KOI irpbs ras e^poXas T&V 

 oW/ucoz/ ep/ua, Ael. ii. I, cf. Antip. Sidon. cv, Ar. Av. 1137, 1429, Nonn. 

 Dionys. xl. 515, Plin. x. 30 (23), also Prov. yepwoi \idovs Kara7re7rru)Kmai, 

 of provident men, Suid. ; and how the same is a touchstone for gold, 

 Ael. iii. 13. [In Plin. xxxvii. 72, the stone yepavlris is said to be so 

 called from resembling the hue of the crane's neck.] How the oldest 

 crane, having encircled the flock, dies and is buried, Ael. ii. i. How 

 they post sentinels, who hold aloft a stone for wakefulness' sake, Ael. 

 iii. 13, Plut. Sol. Anim. x, xxix, Plin. x. 30,. Phil. De An. Pr. xi. The 

 stone still figures in heraldry as the crane and her ' vigilance.' The 

 crane an Egyptian symbol of vigilance, Horap. ii. 94. It observes the 

 time of its coming, ' intelligent of seasons,' Hes. Op. 448 fjr dporolo re 



o-ri/jia (pepei, Kal y^lp.aros &prjv deiKvvei oufipripov. Theocr. Id. X. 3! and 

 Schol., Ar. Av. JIO (nrelpeiv pev orav yfpavos /cpd>bu(r' es rfjv A.i[Bur)v 



The fight with the Pigmies. H. iii. 6 avdpavi nvyp-aioio-i (povov Kal 

 (pf'povcrat, and Schol.; cf. Arist. H. A. viii. 12, 597 (loc. dub.) ov yap 



fCTTi TOVTO juO^of, aXX' eon Kara. rrjv dXrjdeiav yevos p,iKpov p.fv, &(nrep Xeyerat, 

 Kul avroi KOI ol iTTTroi, TfjiayXodurai ' etai TOV ftlov. Cf. also Strab. Geogr. 

 i. 2. 28, p. 35, xv. i. 57, p. 71 1 ; Ctesias, Photii Biblioth. p. 68 ; Opp. Hal. 

 i. 620; Philostr. Imagg. ii. p. 375, Heroic. I.e., Babrius xxvi ; Apoll. 

 Vit. iii. 50, p. 136, &c. Frequent in Latin ; Plin. H. N. iv. 18, vii. 2, x. 

 2 3 (3); Ovid, Met. vi. 90; F. vi. 176 nee quae Pygmaeo sanguine 

 gaudet avem ; cf. Julian. Anticensor. Epigr. 3 m/^an Uvyfj.ai(ov rjdo^vtj 

 yepnvos : Juv. vi. 506, xiii. 168, &c., &c. A myth of the cranes and 

 pigmies in Boios ap. Athen. 393 C rjv TIS rrapa rols nvypaiois yvvi] 

 dido-rjfjLos, oi'Ofj-a Tfpat/n, K.T.\. : cf. Ael. xv. 29 ; Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 16 ; 

 Eustath. in Iliad. 1444. 14; Ovid. Met. I.e. The legend of the Pigmies 

 appears in India in the story of the hostility between the Garuda bird 

 and the people called kirata^ i. e. dwarfs, the 2/upfmu of Ael. xvi. 22 ; 

 cf. Megasthenes ap. Plin. vii. 2. It is quite possible that this fable has 

 an actual foundation in the pursuit of the ostrich by a dwarfish race. 

 (Compare also Addison's poem nvyp.aioyepavop.axia ; Tyson's Essay 

 concerning the Pygmies, &c. 



The Cranes of Ibycus : the avengers of crime. Schol. Ar. Thesmoph. 

 1 68 : Suid. S. V. "iftvKos' crvXXr/Cpdcls 8e vno Xflvruv eV prjp,ias e'cprj, Kav ras 

 ytpdvovs, as e'rv^ej/ uTrfpiVrao-^at, CJtdlKOUf yevevdai, Kal avrbs pev dvypefy 

 p.Ta de raura TCOJ/ Kgvr&W (Is ev rfj TroXei 6fa<rdp,fvos yepdvovs *<$)*)' i'Se, at 

 i, K. T. X. Cf. Iambi. V. Pyth. xxviii. 12. 6 opas rovs 

 Cf. also Plut. De Garrul. p. 509 F, Nemesian. De Nat. Horn. 

 c. 42, Eudoc. p. 247, Zenob. i. 37, Apostol. ii. 14, Diogen. i. 35, H. Steph. 



