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An Indian version, Dion. De Avib. i. 32 OK^KOCI 6V, as -rrapa rots 'li/Soi? 

 opvis fir) yovecov a.Tep KOI p,it-ea>s %<apis v(pio~Tdfji,vos ) (po"ivi rovi/o/ua, KOI (Siovv 

 (f)ao~iv eVi rr\elo~Tov Kal p.era 7rdo~r)$ dfpofiias avTov, u>s ovre TO$~QIS ovre \i6ois 

 ovre Ka\d[jLOLS T) TTiiyctis Tav dvSp&v TI KOT' avTutv Troielv neipafjievwv. *O Se 

 Qdvaros avra> TTJV dpx^jv iroiel rrjs <orjs' ty yap nore yrjpdaas yrpo? ras 7rr?ycrei? 

 favrov "idy vco0<TTfpov, rj ras avyas rS>v o^ardnv e'Xao-o-ovfievas 1 , e'<' vtyrjhrjs 

 TTtrpas Kapfprj trvXXe^a? nvpdv nva rrjs reXeuT^f, rj Ka\iav (rWTiQijfft rrjs 

 , f)v eV /Lteaa) Ka6r)fj,evov TOV (poiriKos r] TO>V rjXiciKcov UKTIVOOV KarcKpXeyei 

 OVTO) de dicKpOapfvros avrov vfos CK rrjs Te<ppas avdis erepoj 

 yiverai (polvig KOI rols Trarpows edeai ^pfjrai, wore vrro TTJS fjXiaKrjs povov 

 avyijs, Trarpos re Kal fir/Tpos X^P lf ) T v P VLV yivfadai TOVTOV. Cf. Physiol. 

 Syr., c. xvi (who adds that the Phoenix builds its nest in the month 

 Pamnuth, s. Faminoth, a Coptic word); Epiphan. in Physiol. c. xi, 

 Eustath. Ant., p. 29 (ed. Lugd. 1677), Pseudo-Hieronym., p. 219 (ed. 

 Venet. 1772). 



Chaeremon, fr. 16 eVmuroV (poivit-. Horap. i. 34 ijXtou e'orij* 6 (poivig 

 ... tyvxriv Se evravda iroXvv XP VOV Swrpipovo-av /3ovXo/xej/oi 

 i) r) ir\rjfj.p,vpav, (poiviKa TO opveov a)ypa<povcriv I ibid. 35 Ka ^ T v 

 e OTTO evr]$ eViS^//.o{!j/ra 8r)\ovvTs, vraXti' (poiviKa TO opveov icoypa- 

 <povo-iv : ib. ii. 57 aTro/caraoracriz/ Se TroXv^pdj/ioi/ /3ouXo/xei/ot o-T]/jLrjvai, 

 (poiviKa TO opveov a)ypa<povo~iv' eKelvos yap ore yevvaTai, a7TOKarao"racris 



A symbol of long life, Prov. i)i /ni) (poiviKos CTTJ ^to>a-?7, Luc. Hermot. 53 

 C 1 ? 793) 5 c f- Jb xxix. 18, where for sand read Phoenix. 



Cf. also Nonnus Dion. xl. 394 /mi ^uXa Krj&evra (pepwv 

 rdpo'co | ^iXter/;s o~o(pos opvis eV ei>68fjL(o o~eo /3co/zca | (polvi, Teppa 

 avrocnropov apxfa I TiKrerat, IO-OTVTTOIO XP OVOV Trd\w ayperos CLKWV \vo~as 

 & ev rrvpl yr/pas, afulfkmu eK nvpbs fjfirjv. See also the Phoenix of 

 Claudian; Auson. Id. xi; Ovid, Met. xv. 402; Senec. Ep. xlii ; Pompon. 

 Mela, iii. 9 ; Lactant. (?) Carm. Phoenice ; Lucian, iii. 27, 276, 350 ; 

 Solin. Polyhistor. c. 36 ; Clem. Rom. Ep. i ad Corinth, c. 24, p. 120, &c. 



Late apparitions of the Phoenix, Plin. x. 2 ; Tacit, vi. 28 ; Dio C. Ivii ; 

 Suidas ; Tzetz. Chiliad, v. 6. A new Phoenix-period is said to have 

 commenced A. D. 139, in the reign of Antoninus Pius; and a recru- 

 descence of astronomical symbolism associated therewith is manifested 

 on the coins of that Emperor. 



Various remedies were to be obtained from its nest, Plin. xxix. 9 

 (Irridere est vitae remedia post millesimum annum reditura monstrare). 



For further references, oriental and classical, see Bochart, Hieroz. ii. 

 coll. 8 1 8, 849. 



On the Phoenix as an astronomical symbol of a cyclic period, see 

 (int. al.) Marsham, Canon. Chron. p. 9, 387 ; Creuzer's Symb. i. p. 438, 

 ii. p. 163 ; Lewis, Astr. of Anc., p. 283 ; Kenrick's Egypt of Herod., 



