FlEAAPrOI riEAEIA 129 



HEAAPrOI (continued}. 



Myth and Legend. Hostile to aWvia, Ael. iv. 5, Phile, 680; to 

 vvKTpis, Ael. vi. 45. Uses opiyavov as a remedy, Arist. H. A. ix. 6, 

 612, Ael. v. 46, Plin. viii. 27. How the bats (wKTepides) render the 

 Stork's eggs unfruitful, and how the Stork defeats them with a leaf of 

 irXdravos, Ael. i. 37, Geopon. xiiL 13, xv. i, 18; according to Anatol. 

 p. 298, a tortoise-bone is equally efficacious. A Stork's stomach is 

 a specific for the murrain of sheep and goats, Geopon. xviii. 1 1 ; cf. 

 Plin. xxix. 33. 



A young Stork, a prophylactic against ophthalmia, Plin. xxix. 38. 



A messenger of Athene (cf. epo8ios), Porph. De Abst. iii. 5. 



Story of Alcinoe, an unfaithful wife: Ael. viii. 20 TOI-TO crwiSuv 6 

 ire\apybs 6 OLKCT^S oi>x virepfivev, aXXa eTip^prjae TO> decnroTTj' Trpo&nrjdSiv 

 yovv fTrrjpoMTf TTJS dvdpwirov Trjv 6S//ii/ i cf. Apostol. xiv. 15, p. 609. Story 

 of Heraclei's, to whom the Stork, healed of a broken leg, brought next 

 year a magic pebble : ibid. viii. 22 rrjv &' ovv \L6ov evdov TTOU 

 flra VVKTWP dtvnvio-Qdcra 6 pa avyrjv nva KO\ a'iyXrjv afyiclvav, KOI 

 6 owcoy coy eaKoiucrdeiffrjs dados : cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 31. The stone was 

 probably the stone \VXVLS or XV^I/I'TTJ?, cf. Plin. xxxvii. (17) 103, and 

 Philostrat. V. Apoll. Tyan. ii. 14 TreXap-yoi KaXias OVK av irrjt-aivro, pr] nporfpov 

 avrals evappoa-avres TOV XV^VI'T^V \idov : cf. also Lucian, De Dea Syr. 32 ; 

 Orph. Lith. 268. 



Metempsychosis : Alex. Mynd. ap. Ael. iii. 23 orav es yrjpas a^iKco^rai, 

 irapeXdovras avrovs es ras ' SlKeavindas vr](rovs dfj.cifBeiv TCI c'idi) es dvdpairov 

 Hop(pfjv, Kai eva-efteias ye T^S es TOVS yeivapevovs adXov TOITO icr^ciy, aXXtos 

 re, e'L TI eyu> voo), K.a\ V7ro0e'cr$ai T>V 6tu>v (3ov\op.evwv TOVTO yovv T>V dvdpw- 

 TTCOV rwv eKeWi TO yevos evo~ej3es Kal ocriov^ ewel ov% olov re T]V ev rfj aX\r) yfj 

 vfi f)\io> TOIOVTOV diafiiovv : cf. the story of the birds of Diomede (s. v. 

 epcoStos), and see for accounts of similar superstitions in recent times, 

 Schwenk, Slav. Mythol. p. 129 ; cf. also August Marx, Griech. Marchen, 

 PP- 5-55) Stuttgart, 1889. 



riE'AEIA, s. ireXetdls. Also ireXTjids, Opp. Cyn. i. 351. 



A Pigeon or Dove. The Epic word : used for nepio-Tfpd also by 

 the Dorians (Sophron. ap. Athen. ix. 394 D), and by the lonians 

 (Hipp. 638. 8, 667. 3 : cf. Lat. pal-umba. Commonly said to be 



connected with TreXo'y, iro\i6s, &C. ; cf. Hesych. neXeiai' fieXaivai 

 VtplOTfpal, and Eustath. Hom. p. 1262 Tre'Xem 8e ov% dn\S)s Trepi- 

 (TTfpd, eldos de TI Treptarepas, cos 17 \eis enibr)\ol' ireXbv yap TO /xeXavi^oi/j 



^ ov ml 6 7rf\apy6s. Nevertheless, the derivation appears to me 

 somewhat dubious; for all the wild pigeons, the Turtle-dove 

 excepted, are very much of a colour, and I do not think the 

 Greeks would have spoken of black pigeons until they had got 



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