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nEAAPfOI (continued}. 



venire sed venisse cernimus : utrumque nocturnis fit temporibus. Cf. 

 Dionys. De Avib. i. 31. (Its departure is scarcely noticed ; Lindermayer, 

 op. cit., p. 154). Ael. iii. 23 rrjs &pas fie rrjs Kpvpwdovs di\6oi;crr]s ) orav 

 VTroo~Tpe\ls()o~iv $ TO. i'5ia, Tr)v eavrS>i> fKarrros KaXiav dvayv(opiovo~iv ) a>s 

 TT}V olKiav av0pa)Troi. The precise regularity of their coming (cf. s. v. 

 Yepayos) : Lucullus to Pompey, ap. Plut. i. 5i8D eira, e<p/;, o-ol SOKG> 

 e\aTTOva TO>V yepdvav vovv ex eiv Ka ' v 7reXapya>j>, wore rats wpais P.TJ 

 o~vp.fj.eTafid\\etv ras Statra? ; Cf. 6 ne\apyos aXrjrijs, Call. Fr. 475. 



According to Strabo, 221, 397, connected with IleXao-yoi, a nomad race; 

 cf. Dion. Hal. i. 28. 



Filial Piety. Ar. Av. 1355 eirfjv 6 irarrjp 6 TreXapyoy 

 irdvTas noirjo-r] TOVS TreXapyiS^s rpe^tov | 8el rovs VCOTTOVS TOV Trarepa nd\iv 

 Tpefaiv. Cf. Plut. Alcib. i. 135 D, Arist. H. A. ix. 13, 615 b, Ael. iii. 23 



Tpe(j)iv fJiev TOVS Trarepas TreXopyol yfytjpaKOTas KOI e6\ov<ri Ka\ 

 efJie^eTrjcrav' KeXfvei 8e avTovs v6p.os avOpasniKos ovde els rovro, dXXa ama 

 TOVTCOV <pv(ris' ol avTOi 8e Kal ra iavTO)V enyova (ptXoO(rt, K. r. X. Origen, 

 C. Celsum, iv ev(rfj3fOTepouff elvai TOVS 7re\apyovs TWV dvdpwTrwv. Cf. Fab. 

 Aesop, yeoop-yoy icat TrcXapyo?, Fab. ico, loo b (ed. Halm), Babr. xiii 

 OVK fljj.1 yepavos, ov trrropov K(iTa(p6fipa> | nc\apy6s elfju (xn XP1 P- 

 TTTrjvwv TTcXap-yos evo-e^earaTO? (/WCDJ' | TOV ep.bv TtdrjvS) narcpa Kal 



Cf. Soph. El. 1058. See also verb amTreXapyfo/, Suidas, Zenob. i. 94, 

 &c., and UfXapyiKot vopjot, Hesych., Suid., &c. The Stork as a primeval 

 law-maker is alluded to in Ar. Av. 1353, perhaps also ibid. 1213. Hence 

 the Stork was honoured by the Egyptians, as an emblem of piety : Ael. 

 X. l6, Horap. ii. 55 <piXo7raropa (3ov\6fjifvot (njfiTJvai avdpconov, TreXapyoi/ 

 a>ypa(povo~tv. fv TOLS o~Kr)7TTpnis afcortpa) p,ev irf\apybv ruTrovfrt, Karcorepa) 

 de Trora/itoi/ tmrov. (Cf. Schol. in Ar. Av. I.e.) Cf. Phile, (vi.) 158 : Plin. 

 x. (23) 33 ; Juv. Sat. i. 116 ; Porph. De Abst. iii. n ; Publius ap. Petron. 

 Sat. 55 ciconia etiam grata, peregrina, hospita, Pietaticultrix, gracilipes, 

 crotalistria. 



How the Storks teach their children to fly, Plut. ii. 992 B KOI TOIS n-eXap- 

 yiSevcrij/ 6 pas eVi TO>V Teyav cos ol re'Xeioi napovTes dvaTreipatfjievois vCprjyotvTai 



TT)V TTTTjO-iV. 



Destroys serpents, and hence honoured by the Thessalians. Arist. 

 Mirab. 23, 832 Trepi QfTra\iav p.vr]p.ovvovo~iv o<peis ^Ktoyovrjdrjvai TOO~OVTOVS 

 SXTT } el fj.f] VTTO Tcov ne\apyS)V dvgpovVTO, eK^top^trat av avrovs. fiio 8fj KOI 

 TIJJ,U>O~L TOVS TreXapyouy, *cal KTeiveiv ov VOJJLOS' Kal edv TIS KTturg^ tvo%os roty 

 avTols yiveTai olanrfp Kal 6 di>8po(puvos '. see also Plut. De Isid. c. 74> 

 Symp. viii. 7, Plin. x. (23) 33, Solin. De Thessal. Cf. Juv. Sat. xiv. 74 

 serpente ciconia pullos, Nutrit et inventa per devia rura lacerta ; Virg. 

 G. ii. 320. 



The Stork as food, Hor. Sat. ii. 2, 50, and Scholia; cf. Corn. Nepos, 

 ap. Plin. x. (23) 30, Mart. Ep. xiii. 



