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rare in Aeschylus ; not in Sophocles, save for Tm'Xoz/ KVKVCIOV in the 

 dubious fr. 708, ap. Clem. Alex. Strom. 716.] 



Description. Arist. H. A. i. I, 488, viii. 12, 597 b opvis aye\aios : 

 ib. viii. 3, 593 b, enumerated among ra /Sapurepa TO>V o-reyavoTro'Scoj/ : 

 ib. ix. 12, 615 ftioTfvovo-i irepl \ipvas KOI eX?7, cvjSi'oroi Se KCU fvrjOtis Kal 

 VTKVOI Kal evyrjpoi, Kal TOV aerof, eav apf-rjTai, dp.vvop.fvoi viKwaiv^ avTol 

 8' OVK apxovai paxys. nSiKol Se, Kal irepl ras reXeura? /zaXtora a8ov<nv' 

 avaTTtrovrai yap Kal fls TO neXayos, Kai Tives fjdr] irXeovres Trapa TTJV AijBvrjv 

 irepiTV%ov ev rfj BaXdrTrj TroXXoi? q8ovo~i (pcovfj yocoSei, Kal TOVTODV <apa>v 

 aTTo6vrjO~KOVTas eviovs I cf. Ael. V. H. i. 14 Xeyet 'Apia-roreX^? TOV KVKVOV 

 Ka\\inat$a elvat Kal TroXyrratSa, /c.r.X. : cf. also Athen. ix. 393 d ; Eustath. 

 ad Horn. II. p. 193 ; Dion. De Avib. ii. 19. Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 509 e'x 

 a7ro(f)vddas oXiyas KaTcadfv Kara TTJV TOV eVre'pou Te\evTrjv. Occur abun- 

 dantly 'Ao-icp ev Xeipwvi, Kavo~Tplov dp(j)l pee^pa, II. ii. 461 : cf. Virg. G. 

 i. 383, Aen. vii. 699; on the river Hebrus, Ar. Av. 768; on Lake 

 Aornos, in the spot called Pyriphlegethon, near Cumae, Arist. De 

 Mirab. 102, 839. Its flight described, Plin. x. (23) 32. The swan as 

 food, Athen. ix. 393, Plut. De Esu Cam. 2, &c. 



Myth and Legend. On the combat with the Eagle, vide s. v. deros, 

 and compare also the story of Leda ; cf. also Ael. v. 34, xvii. 24 ; Dion. 

 De Avib. ii. 19. Is hostile also to 8paKa>v, Ael. v. 48, Phile 691. 

 Is aXX^Xocpayo? pdXicrTa T&V opveav, Arist. H. A. ix. I, 6lO (cf. aXX^Xcxpo- 

 vos, Pice., A. and W., dXX^Xocpi'Xo?, Sund.), cf. Plin. x. (23) 32 mutua 

 carne vescuntur inter se. Is killed by KWVSIOV, Ael. iii. 7 ; places the herb 

 Xvyaia in its nest as a charm, Boios ap. Athen. ix. 393 E. How the Indians 

 do not favour the swan, from its want of filial affection, Ael. xiv. 13 ; yet 

 the swan bewails its dead parent in Eur. El. 151, cf. Bacch. 1364 opvis 

 ona>5 Kr)(j)rjva [a/Kp6/3aXXei] TroXio^pcos KVKVOS. Associated with the op(f)a\os 

 Sit Delphi, Plut. De Orac. i. 409 ; vide s. v. deros. A good omen to 

 sailors, Virg. Aen. i. 393, Aemil. Macer in Ornithogr. Anthol. Vet. Lat. 

 Epigr. et Poem. i. 116 (cf. Serv. in Aen. 1. c.) Cygnus in auspiciis semper 

 laetissimus ales, Hunc optant nautae, quia se non mergit in undas : 

 see also Stat. Theb. iii. 524 ; cf. the Swan as a figure-head, Nicostr. 

 iii. 282, &c. : cf. also the mythological (and astronomical) association 

 of the Swan with Castor and Pollux (Hopf, Orakelthiere, p. 177) : see 

 also Drummond in Class. Journal, xvi. p. 94. The Swan-maidens, 

 Kopat Tpels KVKvopopcfroi, Aesch. Pr. V. 797. According to Nicand. and 

 Areus ap. Anton. Lib. c. xii, a certain Cycnus, and his mother Thuria, 

 were metamorphosed into swans at Lake Conopa, Kal no\\ol tv TJJ &pa 

 TOV dpOTov fvraiiOa (paivovTai KVKVOI. 



On the Swan as the bird of Apollo, cf. Hymn. Horn, xxi, Caljim. 

 Hymn. Apoll. 5, id. Hymn. Del. 249, Ar. Av. 772, 870, Ael. xi. I, Nonn. 

 Dionys. xxxviii. 2O2 KVKVOV aywv rrrepofVTa, Kal ov ra^w "LTTTTOV 'A7r6XXcoj>,&C., 



