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F1EPIITEPA (continued'}. 



How a Pigeon caused a war between Chaonians and Illyrians, Ael. 

 xi. 27. 



The Dove of Deucalion ; Plut. Mor. ii. 968 F Trepto-repai/ e< rijs \dpvaKos 

 d(pip,VT)v } S^Xco/ia yfve<rdai Xip,>vos pev euro) TTaXiv evdvofjLtvrjv, evftias 8e 

 aTTOTrrao-ai/ : cf. Lucian, Syr. Dea, c. 12, Apollod. i. 7, 2 (vide s.v. ueXcia). 



The Pigeon in Medicine. For references to the therapeutic value 

 of Pigeons' dung, flesh, blood, feathers, and other parts in cases of 

 poisoning, burns, ulcers, jaundice, and most other ailments, see Galen, 

 De Simpl. Med. Temp, x, also Plin. iii. (6) 12, xxii. (25) 58, xxix. (6) 39, 

 and xxx, passim. 



Fables. Trepiorf pa KOI KO\OIOS, Fab. Aes. (ed. Halm) 201 b. Trepurrfpa 



KOL KOpWVT], ibid. 358. 7TpL(TTpa KCU pvpfj.r)g, ibid. 296. TTfpHTTepa dl- 



^oia-fl, ibid. 357. 



See also, in addition to articles cited s.v. irAeia, T. Watters, Chinese 

 Notions about Pigeons and Doves, N. China Br., R. As. Soc., iv. 

 pp. 225-242, 1867. In this paper various resemblances are shown to 

 exist between classical superstitions and Chinese popular notions, an 

 important subject concerning which too little information is accessible. 

 Among other points, the writer states that in Chinese legend the Dove 

 is often confused with the Cuckoo, that the former as well as the latter 

 bird is said to metamorphose into the Hawk, and that the Dove is said 

 to lay in the Magpie's nest : these facts may have some bearing on 

 the obscure Aristotelian statements referred to above (s.v. KOKKU) 

 concerning the nesting of the Cuckoo in the nest of <j>d\|/. 



flEPIITEPA" MHAl'NH. An Indian Green Fruit-pigeon, Treron sp. 



Daemach. ap. Athen. 394 e; Ael. V. H. i. 15. Also Treptorfpal a>xpa', 

 Ael. xv. 14, brought as presents to the Indian king; acnrep Xeyouo-t /-i^re 

 rjfiepova-dai /xJjre irore npavveo-Qai. Cf. S.v. ireXeids \\wp6irTi.\o<$. 



nEPKNO'flTEPOI = opciireXapyos = uircuVros. A kind of Vulture. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 6l8b XevKrj Kpa\f), fifytdei be peyHTTOS, Trrepa 

 de /Spa^urara, KOI ovponvyiov Trpn/ui/Kcy, -yuTTi opoios. ope'ineXapyos KaXelrai 

 KOI inraifTos, oiKel 8' aXo-rj, ra pev KCIKO. rai/ra e^o>v rols aXXois-, r>v 

 6' dyaQ&v ov8ev' aXurKerai yap KCU diaxeTai vno KopaKuv Kal TUV aXXcoi/. 

 Qapiis yap KOI KaKoftios Ka\ TO. TeQve>Ta (pepwv, TreLvfj ' aet Kal /3oa Kal 

 pivvpifri : cf. Plin. x. (i) 3. 



Of the three names, not one occurs elsewhere, save vTra/eroy, Boios 

 ap. Anton. Lib. c. 20 (loc. corr.). The description is insufficient, but 

 agrees fairly, except as regards size, with the Egyptian Vulture ; in 

 which case the black and white plumage may explain TrepKj/o'Trrepor, 

 and, together perhaps with the stork-like nest, opfiWXapyos-. 



Sundevall identifies TrepwoTrrepos with the Lammergeier, Gypaetus 

 barbatuS) L., with which the epithet Xeu*oKe'<paXoy agrees ; but for this 



