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The legend of Coronis (Paus. ii. 26, 6), mother of Aesculapius : the 

 raven sent for water by Apollo, and punished for dallying by the way ; 

 hence the raven, alone of birds, does not bring water to its young : 

 Dion. De Avib. i. 9, Phil. De An. Pr. vi : cf. Callim. fr. nuper edit., 

 Gompertz, Mitth. a. d. Rainersammlung, 1893, Kenyon, Class. Rev. 

 1893, p. 430. See further, Ael. i. 47; also Ovid, F. ii. 249, where 

 Corvus in the same story appears as a constellation ; according to 

 Hyginus, Poet. Astron. c. xl, the raven waited to devour some ripening 

 figs, and the punishment of everlasting thirst is correlated with the 

 juxtaposition of the constellations Corvus and Crater, which latter the 

 Hydra guards (Ovid, F. ii. 243 Continuata loco tria sidera Corvus et 

 Anguis, Et medius Crater inter utrumque iacet). Hence Prov. *o/:;a 

 vdpevfi, Hesych., Suid. In the version of the same story in Ovid, Met. 

 ii, the raven was originally white (v. 536) Nam fuit haec quondam niveis 

 argentea pennis Ales, ut aequaret totas sine labe columbas ; a world- 

 wide legend : cf. Hygin. Fab. 202, Cower, Conf. Amant. iii, &c. 



On the name Coronis in connexion with Moon-symbolism, cf. Pott 

 in Lazarus and Steintheil's Zeitschr., xiv. p. 18, 1883. 



It is skilled in augury, Ael. i. 48 ; cf. Aes. Fab. 212, Plin. x. (12), 15, 

 Cic. Divin. i. 39, Ovid, Met. ii. 534, Plaut. Aulul. iv. 3, i, Id. Asin. ii. 

 i, 12, Hor. Car. iii. 17, Stat. Theb. iii. 506, Petron. Sat. 122, Valer. Max. 

 i. c. 4, Festus, 197, c. 



How ravens conducted Alexander to the Temple of Jupiter Ammon, 

 and subsequently gave warning of his death, Plut. V. Alex. c. 27. 



How the ravens flocked to Delphi, and despoiled the gifts of the 

 Athenians, before the Sicilian disaster, Pausan. x. 15, 5. 



How ravens guided the Boeotians to the site of a new city, Photius, 

 s. v. es Kopaicas. 



How all the ravens departed from Athens and the Peloponnese on 

 the defeat of Medius at Pharsalus, Arist. ix. 31, 618 b : cf. Plin. x. 15 ; 

 see Schneider in loc., and ad Xen. Hellen. ii. 3, 4, further Diodor. xiv. 

 82, and Strab. xi. p. 591. Some similar incident seems to be alluded 

 to in Ar. Eq. 1052 dXX' lepaKa <pi\et } p.[j,vT]fj.evos tv (ppeaiV) 6s (rot | Tjfycrye 

 crvvdrjoas AaKfdaifjioviav KopaKivovs. 



How in Egypt the ravens beg of those sailing by in boats, and if 

 denied, cut the cordage, Ael. ii. 48. Places liyvov in its nest as a charm, 

 Ael. i. 35 : cf. Phile, 727. Detests rrjv evfapov TTOUV, Phile, De An. 670, 



or va>fJLOV (nrepfjui) Ael. vi. 46. Is hostile to iKrlios, alaraXav, 

 ovos, Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 b, Ael. v. 48, Phile, 388, 705, and to 

 Phile, 690. A raven and an ass together on a coin of Mindaon, Imh. 

 Bl., and Kell., p. 32, pi. 24 (the constellation Corvus set shortly after 

 Cancer, with which latter the Ass is associated). The hare detests the 

 voice of the raven, Ael. xiii. 1 1 (and the constellation Lepus sets soon 



