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Cyclades, 1885, P- 253). On the construction of dove-cotes, their 

 internal niches (0-77*01, KvOplvot, Geop. xiv. 6), and perches (o-avides), on 

 the duties of the Treptorfporpocpoy, ndaa-aroTpocpos (Opp. Cyn. i. 354) or 

 pastor columbarius, on charms to keep the birds from straying, &c., &c., 

 see Varro, Columella, Palladius, and Geoponica, loc. citt. For references 

 to dove-cotes, see also Ovid, Met. iv. 48 albis in turribus ; id. Tr. i. 4. 7 

 aspicis, ut veniant ad Candida tecta columbae, Accipiat nullas sordida 

 turris aves ; Mart. xiii. 31 quaeque gerit similes Candida turris aves. 



According to Varro, a pair of full-grown pigeons was worth from 

 200-1000 sesterces ; and L. Axius had purchased a pair of a dealer for 

 500 denarii. 



The Sacred Doves of Venus or Astarte. Pigeons were sacred in the 

 eyes of the Syrians, like the fishes of the river Chalos, Xen. Exp. Cyr. 

 i. 4, 9 ; they were kept in great numbers at Ascalon, Ctes. ap. Diodor. 

 ii. 4, Philo ap. Euseb. Prep. Evang. viii. 14, 64 (cf. the Dove on coins 

 of Ascalon, Eckhel, Doctr. Numm. iii. p. 445) ; and at Hierapolis, Lucian, 

 De Syr. Dea, c. 14, where the statue of Atargatis had a gold dove on 

 her head, Lucian, ibid. c. 33. On Venus' doves, see also Virg. Aen. vi. 

 190, Ovid, Met. xiv. 597, Fulgent. Mythol. ii, &c., c. 



On the doves in Palestine, cf. Tibull. i. 7, 17 Quid referam, ut volitet 

 crebras intacta per urbes Alba Palaestino sancta columba Syro? cf. 

 Hygin. Fab. 197, Lucian, De Syr. p. 912, Joseph: loc. cit., Clem. Alex. 

 Trpos *EXhr)i> ii, Philo ap. Euseb. P. E. viii. c. 14, p. 398, &c. See also 

 the account given above of the introduction of white pigeons into 

 Greece, and compare the sanctity of the bird in modern times at 

 Mecca, Constantinople, Venice, Moscow, &c. On the cult of Doves 

 in Syria, cf. Broeckhuis, ad Tibull. 1. c. 



The cult of the goddess, carried from Ascalon to Cyprus (Herod, i. 

 105, Pausan. i. 14, 7), brought thither the sacred doves ; cf. Antiphon. 

 ap. Athen. xiv. 635 B 77 Kvnpos d' e'xei neXeias dia<popovs I the white 

 Paphian doves, Martial, viii. 28, 13, cf. Nemes. fr. De Aucup. 22 ; see 

 also Eustath. Horn. II. p. 1035. See also Fr. Miinter, Die himmlische 

 Gottin zu Paphos, p. 25. 



As evidences of the cult in islands of the Aegean, cf. the Dove on 

 coins of Seriphos and Siphnos, and the ancient dove-cotes still standing 

 on the latter island. On figures of Astarte with the Dove, see (int. al.) 

 Lenormant, Gaz. Archdol. 1876, p. 133 ; de Longpe'rier, Mus. Napol. iii. 

 pi. xxvi. 2, &c., &c. 



At Eryx in Sicily ; Athen. ix. 394 f rrjs 8e SixeX/a? ev*EpvKi Kmpos TIS 

 eortV, ov KaXovaiv 'Ai/aycoyia, eV <u (pcuri rf]v 6tbv els At/Sur/i/ avi'iyecrdaC TOT' 

 cvv at Trept TUV TOTTOV Trepiorepal dcpavels yivovrai o>s brj T>] 6e<S arivcarobr]- 

 /xovo-ai, K. r. X. Cf. Ael. iv. 2, x. 50, V. H. i. 15. For the Dove on 

 a silver coin of Eryx, see Du Mersan, Med. inedites, Paris, 1832, p. 57. 



