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nEAEIA (continued}. 



the Chaldaean deluge-myth, cf. Euseb. Chron. Armen. i. p. 50, &c., c. ; 

 see also the representation on coins of Apamea, Eckhel, Doctr. Numm. 

 iii. 132, Friedlander, Kgl. Miinzkab. pi. ix, c., &c. 



A similar explanation is given of the Dove of the deluge-myth. 



The Pleiades (as doves ?) fleeing before the hunter Orion, Hes. Op. 

 et D. 619. 



For references to the copious (and often unreliable) literature of 

 Pleiad-symbolism, see int. al., Pluche, Hist, du ciel, Dupuis, Orig. de 

 tous les cultes, Haliburton, New Materials for the Hist, of Man, 1863, 

 von Bunsen, Plejaden und Thierkreis, 1879, Nitzsch in Od. v. 272, 

 &c., &c. 



How the soul of Ctesylla departed as a dove ; Nicand. ap. Anton. 

 Lib. i ; cf. Ovid, Met. vii. 370. 



The Pigeons of Dodona. Herod, ii. 55 raSe Se Aeo8a>raiW (pa<r\ at 

 7rpop.dvTiS, 8vo TreXeiaSas 1 p.\aivas K Qrjfteow ru>v AtyuTrnecoj/ avaTrro/xeVar, 

 rrjv [lev avrecnv es Aifiurjv, rrjv 8e napa axpeas dnLKfaOai' ifcofjLfvrjv 8e piv 

 eVt (frriyov, avdda<r6ai (pwvfj dvOpotTrrjir], eby XP ^ V e fy parrifav avroQi Atos 

 yfWo&ti. Ibid. 57 TreXeiafie? de pot doKeowi KXrjdijvai npos Aco&oi/auoi/ 

 67rl rovde at yvvalKes, 8tort /3ap/3apoi f)<rav' edoKfov 8e cr<pi 6fj,oia>s opvuri 

 (}>0cyyfo-6at . . . peKmvav 8e \tyovres flvai rf]V TreXetaSa o-rjuaivovcri on 

 AlyvTTTlrj T) yvvrj rjv. Cf. Pausan. vii. 21, x. 12. On Alexander and the 

 doves at Ammon, cf. Curtius, iv. c. 7, Strabo, xvii. See also J. Arneth. 

 Ueber das Taubenorakel von Dodona, Wien, 1841 ; Perthes, Die 

 Peleiaden von Dodona, Progr. d. Progymn. zu Mors, 1869; H. D. 

 Miiller, Philol. Anz. ii. p. 95, 1870; Lorenz, op. cit., p. 35; Creuzer, 

 Symb. iii. pp. 183, 217. 



According to Thrasybulus and Acestodorus, ap. Schol. II. xvi. 233, 

 a dove had founded the oracle in the time of Deucalion. On the 

 pigeons of Dodona, see also Soph. Tr. 171 <us rr)V naXaiav (prjybv nv^aat 

 7roT6 I AooSam 8i<r(r)v CK TreXetaScov c(pr) : also ap. Schol. Find. fr. Paean. 

 58 (30) ; Diod. i. 13, iii. 71 ; Sil. Ital. iii. 678 ; Serv. in Aen. iii. 466, 

 Eel. ix. 13. According to Strabo, ap. Eustath. in Od., p. 1760, and 

 Geogr. vii. fr. i a the priestesses were called Tre^iopavrfis, cf. KopaKonav- 

 rets. According to Philostr. Imagg. ii. 33 (387 k), a choir of priestesses 

 danced round an oak, on which sat a golden dove. Dion. Halic. Ant. 

 Rom. i. 14, 4f compares with the Dodonaean dove the TT'IKOS or 

 dpvoKoXaTTTrjs of the oracle of Mars. The whole story is intricate and 

 confused. It seems clear that the priestesses were called Tre'Xeiat (cf. 

 Paley, Aesch. Suppl. ed. 2, p. xiv) or TreXeto/udWet? ; and also that 

 the oracle was not essentially an augury or bird-oracle, but one in 

 which tree- worship, river- worship (cf. Macrob. v. 18), and thunder- 

 worship (cf. Mommsen, Gr. Jahresz. p. 432, c.) were alike involved. 

 The doves of Dodona link on to the story of Deucalion, to the doves 



