A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



HEAEIA (contimted}. 



/3a\e Ufa-err)* : the same story transferred to Aeneas and Eurytion, Virg. 

 Aen. v. 485-544. 



On the pigeons that brought ambrosia to the infant Zeus, see Od. 

 xii. 60 ; Moero Byz. ap. Athen. xi. 4906 ; Ptolem. Hephaest. ap. Phot. i. 

 p. 474. 



The Dove that flew between the clashing rocks in the passage of 

 the Hellespont : Apoll. Rh. ii. 328, ii. 557, &c., and Schol. ouoi/cw Si) 

 irpocrde TreXeiuSi Treip^aaarde \ vqbs ciTronpo ftedevres e(pifp,v' . . . afcpa 8' 

 K.o\lfav | ovpala Trrepa raiye TreXeiuSos* f) & diropovcrtv \ d(TKr)6r)s '. see also 

 Apollod. i. 9, 22, Hygin. Fab. xix, Propert. ii. 26, 39 cum rudis Argus 

 Dux erat ignoto missa columba mari, &c. ; cf. the account of the 

 l Tre'rpai or Cyanean rocks, Od. xii. 62 rfj pev r oi/Se TTOTTJTO. 

 i, ot5e Tre'Xeicu | rpqpeoi'e?, rat T* d^poairjv Au Trarpi <pepov<riv : 

 cf. Plut. ii. I56F. The Dove in the story of the Argonauts again, 

 in connexion with the fire-breathing bulls, Apoll. Rh. iii. 541 



ay, | v 



In the above legends there are numerous traces of the mythical 

 astronomy of the Pleiads. This view is a very ancient one ; cf. Athen. 

 xi. 490 E TrpwTr) 8e Motpo> 17 BvfavTia KaXws fdet-aro TOV vovv TO>V 'Oprfpov 

 Troi^paTcov, eV rfj Mvt)fj,oo-vi/Tj eTTiypafpopevr] (pda-Kov<ra rrjv dp.ftpo(riav T 

 Au ras n\iddas KO/J.!.^LV. Kpdrrjs de 6 KpiriKos cr(pfTfpi(rdfj,(vos avrijs rrjv 

 86gav, &s i'Sioj/ K(pepfi TOV \dyov. Cf. Moero, ibi cit., in the story of 

 the Infant Jove, u>s 8' avras rp^pcocri TreXetacrtf coTra(re Ti/zj^y, | at 8r) rot 

 Bepcos KOI x^paTos ayye\oi tlcriv : also many references, ap. Athen. 1. c., 

 from Pindar, Simonides, Simmias, Lamprocles, &c., where the TrXeiaSf? 

 are called TreXeiaSes- : e. g. Lampr. (p. 554 Bergk) atre noravais 6p.a>j/up>oi 

 nfXddariv altiepi Ktlvde. The Pleiads are also supposed to be alluded 

 to in Alcman, fr. 23 (Bergk) TO! irfXeiddes yap dp.iv \ 'Opdia (papos fapoi- 

 <rais | VVKTO. Si' ap,/3pO(Tiai/ are o-fipiov | avrpov dj/etpo/xevai /xa^oi/rat. 



The coincidences on which rests the foundation for an astronomical 

 interpretation of the above myths are chiefly the following. As has 

 been mentioned above, s.v. aXKuwy, the sun rose together with the 

 Pleiads in the sign of the Bull, at the vernal equinox, the ancient 

 opening of the year. If the Cretan Jupiter was a Sun-god, he might 

 be said to be nursed by the 7r[Y]Xeiade? : the sign Taurus may have 

 been the Cretan Bull ; and a transit through that sign may have 

 been the celestial Boo-Tropo? of the Argonautic voyage. The Dove as an 

 attribute of Venus is similarly explained, the domus Veneris being in 

 the sign Taurus, the sign of the Pleiad. 



The Doves of Nestor's cup, II. xvi. 634, are also supposed to have 

 reference to the Pleiades, Athen. xi. 490-492. 



On the Dove of Deucalion : cf. Plut. Mor. 968, 1 185. On the dove in 



