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IE PAH (continued}. 



heart is eaten, to obtain prophetic powers, Porph. De Abst. ii. 48. A 

 Hawk sitting on a tree a sign of rain, Theophr. Sign. fr. vi. 2, 17. 



The Fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale, Hes. Op. et D. 201, 

 Aes. fab. 9. 



A metaphor of the Hawk and the Crows, Ar. Eq. 1052. 



The metamorphosis of Hierax, Boios ap. Anton. Lib. iii ; cf. that of 

 Deucalion, Ov. Met. xi. 340. 



The Hawk entered in Egypt into innumerable hieroglyphics, in 

 which its image is, in the main, a phonetic element, the symbolic 

 ideas being, for the most part, secondary (cf. supra, s. v. jSai-^O). 

 According to Horap. i. 8 *Apea ypd(povTes KOI 'Afppodirrjv, 8vo iepanas 



faypacpovviv ; these are the symbols >,\ and HM , Horus and 



Hat- H or, the latter being the OIKOS "Qpov of Plutarch. According to 

 Chaeremon, fr. 8 Vv)(r)-rj\ios-0f6s = iepat-. On the sanctity of hawks in 

 Egypt, and the solar symbolism associated with them there, see also 

 (besides the references quoted above), Porph. De Abst. iii. 4 ; the Sun 

 called tVpa, ibid. iv. 16, Plut. De Is. et Osir. c. 51, Eus. P. E. iii. 10, 

 Clem. Alex. Strom, v. 7. 



For other words and phrases in which the hieroglyph of the Hawk 

 had part, see Horap. i. 6 Qebv ^ov\6p.evoi cnyftgwu, 77 v^os, rj 



17 vnepoxfjv, rj ai/ui, 77 VIKTJV, iepaKa a>ypa(pov<ri I id. ii. 15 iepa 

 ray Tfrepvyas ev aepi, otov nrepvyas e\ovra avep.ov crr]p,alvai I id. ii. 99 

 diTOTa^iipevov TO. 'i8ia reKva 81 drropiav jSovAo/zcj/oi o'Tjp.fjvai, IepaKa 

 <oypa(f)ov(Tiv : Diod. Sic. iii. 4. 2 iepat; avrols arrjuaivei rravra TO. 

 ogcas yevofieva. Cf. Klaproth ad Goulianoff De Inv. Hierogl. Acrolog., 

 cit. Leemans in Horap. p. 150, and especially Lauth, Sitzungsber. Bayer. 

 Akad., 1876, pp. 77-79- 



See also alordXwi/, apaicos, |3aiY|'0, jSdppa^, peXXou^s, cXeios, eiriXcios, 

 , TrepKos, Trrepi'is, (riri^ias, Tpiopx^S, uTTOTpiopx^S, ^ao'O'O^oi'OS, 



, &C. 

 MZl'NEZ' oitovoi, opviQcs, Hesych. Cf. deii/oi. 



IKTEPOI. A bird with fabulous attributes; according to Pliny, 

 identical with galgulus, the Golden Oriole. 



Plin. xxx. ii (28) Avis icterus vocatur a colore, quae si spectetur, 

 sanari id malum [t/crepoi/, malum regium, the jaundice] tradunt, et 

 avem mori. Hanc puto Latine vocari galgulum (galbula, Mart, 

 xiii. 68). Cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 27 ; Coel. Aurel. Chron. iii. 5 passio 

 vocabulum sumpsit secundum Graecos ab animalis nomine, quod sit 

 coloris fellei. Cf. Schneider, in Arist. H. A. ix. 12 ; and Suid., who derives 

 the word from IKTWOS. Vide infra s.v. 



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