OPTY=. 125 



OPTYE (continued). 



Ar. Av. 1299 and Schol. Cf. Plut. ii. 34 D. See also Meursius, De 

 Ludis Graecorum, in Gronov. Thes. Ant. Gr. vii. p. 979. 



Immunity from poison. Arist. De Plant. 5, 820 b {joa-Kvapos KOI 

 eXXe/3opos- dvOpairois ptv Si]\r)TT)pioi, Tpn(pf) 6e Tols oprvt. Cf. Plin. x. 33 

 (23), Geopon. xiv. 24, Galen. De Ther. ad Pison. i. 4, De Alim. Fac. 

 ii. 6, De Temper, iii. 4, Basil. Hexaem. v. p. 59 (ed. Paris), Eustath. 

 Hexaem. p. 9, Ambros. Hexaem. iii. 9, &c., Lucret. iv. 641. For similar 

 oriental reff., see Bochart, ii. 97, 98. 



Legend of Delos. Phanodem. ap. Athen. ix. 392 d as Kareldev 'Epvo-i'^- 

 &u>v ArjXoj/ TTJV vrjcrov rfjv VTTO T>V dp^aiaiv KaXovfjievTjv 'OpTvytav Trap* 6 ras 

 dyeXas T>V <(*>v TOVTCHV (pepopevas CK TOV ne\dyovs idveiv (Is Trjv vrjaov 8ta 

 TO vopp.ov fivat ... Cf. Serv. ad Aen. iii. 73. On the metamorphosis 

 of Artemis, Leto, and Asteria into Quails, see Apollod. i. 4, i, Schol. 

 Apoll. Rhod. i. 308, Hygin. Fab. 53, Tatian, Adv. Grace, c. xvi, &c. In 

 yet another version it is Zeus himself who appears as a Quail : Argum. 

 Pyth. Pindari, ed. Bockh, ii. p. 297. 



Legend of Hercules. Eudox. ap. Athen. ix. 392 d ot $oii>i<cs 

 T<0 'Hpa/cXeZ oprvyas Sia TO TOV 'HpaicXe'a TOV 'Acrrepiay KOI Ato? 

 (Is AiSvrjv dvaipfOrjvai /ieV VTTO Tv(pS)vos, 'loXaou S' avTfS 7rpoo~eveyKavTOs 

 opTvya Kal 7rpoo~ayayovTOS oo~(f)pavdevTn aj/a/3icoj/ai : cf. Arist. Probl. XXX. I. 

 Eustath. in Od. xi. 60, p. 1702. PrOV. o'pru eo-wo-fv 'HpaxXri TOV Kaprfpoi/, 



Zenob. v. 56 ; Diog. vii. 10 ; Apostol. xiii. I ; Eutecnius in Cram. Anecd. 

 Paris., i. p. 31 ; Paroemiogr. Gr. i. p. 143. In this passage various 

 commentators read opvya for oprvya, the Gazelle being sacred to 

 Typhon ; cf. Jablonski, Panth. 197, Dupuis, Orig. de tous les Cultes, 

 ii. 350, Creuzer, Symb. ii. 100, Boch., I.e.; but the emendation is not 

 justified, cf. Stark, op. infra cit. The Quail's brain was a specific for 

 epilepsy, the morbus comitialis or herculeus, Galen, Parat. Facil. iii. 

 155, Plin. x. (23) 33. Vartikd, the Quail, is said to be a solar emblem 

 among the Hindoos : it is as the emblem of the returning Sun, that it 

 figures in the legend of Delos, the birthplace of Phoebus, and in that of 

 Hercules, the slayer of Typhon. 



The principal allusions to the Island of Ortygia are collated and 

 discussed by Hermann, De Apoll. et Diana, Opusc. vii. p. 310 (1839). 

 See also, for a still more elaborate investigation, Stark, Die Wachtel, 

 Sterneninsel und der Oelbaum im Bereiche phoinikischer und griechi- 

 scher Mythen, Ber. K. Sachs. Ges. d. Wiss., 1856, pp. 32-120. It 

 seems clear to me that in the superstitions regarding the Quail, and in 

 the sacred reputation of Ortygia, the main point is with reference to 

 the Solar Tropic ; cf. Od. xv. 403 vyo-os TIS Svpirj KfK\fjo-KeTat, nov 

 d.KOvfts, | 'OpTvyirjs Kadinrepdev, 061 Tporrai qeXioio. The Quail derived its 

 sanctity, and perhaps its name, from the circumstance that it returned 

 with the returning Sun, and Ortygia was some spot where the Tpoiral 



