1 88 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



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i(rli> ev dyyet'ois e^tXcD/iei/ai Tra/iTrai/. Cf. Plin. x. (24) 34 in vicina abeunt 

 apricos secutae montium recessus, inventaeque iam sunt ibi nudae atque 

 deplumes ; Claudian, Eutrop. i. 118 Vel qualis gelidis pluma labente 

 pruinis Arboris immoritur trunco brumalis hirundo. In reference to 

 the migration, see also Aesch. fr. 48 nedoiKos (i. e. 

 Arch, xxvi, Gk. Anth. ii. 86 alav o\r)v VTJVOVS re 

 The Swallow as the bird of returning Spring : Hes. Op. et D. 568 (ii. 

 1 86) TOV 8e p.er' opdpoyoT] Hav$iov\s wpro ^eXiScov | es (pdos avdp&Trois, eapos 

 veov iarajj-evoio. Simon. 74 (l2l) ap. Schol. Ar. Av. 1410 ayyeXe K\vra 

 eapos ddvodpov, \ Kvavea ^eXifiot. Stesich. fr. 45 (Bergk) ap. Eust. II. IO. 

 I oTav rjpos oopa K.e\a8fj ^fXificoi/. Ar. Pax 800 v/zi/eiv, orav rjpivd p.ev (puvfj 

 XaSry. Id. Eq. 4^9 o"/ce\^ao"^e rraldes' ov% 6pa$' | eopa 

 Id. Av. 714, &c. Ael. i. 52. Babr. 131. Cf. Ovid, Fasti, 

 ii. 853 Fallimur an veris praenuntia venit hirundo : Hor. Ep. i. 7, 13, 

 &c. Cf. also a well-known vase (first figured in Mon. Inst. Corr. 

 Archeol. ii. pi. xxiv) with the inscription 'iSou x^tSd)f. NJ? TOV 'HpaxXea. 

 Avr^r. "Eap fjdr). 



How the Swallows come with the wind xeXiSoiuas or Favonius,Theophr. 

 H. P. vii. 15, i, Plin. ii. 47. 



Artemid. p. 1 53 orav Se ro cap TrapajSaX?; Trpurr} irpoveiaiv' ws av e'irroi 

 diroSeiKviiovcra TWV epyw eKaora, Kai orav ye (paivrjTai oi/SeTrore e(rjrepas 

 aSet, dXX' eoidev T]\IOV dvl(r)(OVTOs ovs av 5>VTas KaraXa/i/Sapoi {jTrofMifivfj- 

 o-Kovo-a T>V epyoav : cf. Nonn. Dionys. iii. 13 /ecu Xiyup^, /tiepoTreo-o-i crvvea- 

 rios, etapi Krjpvt;, \ opOpiov virvov cipepve XaXos rpu^oucra ^eXiScov | dvrKpavrjS I 

 Apul, Florid, ii. 13 cantum hirundinibus matutinum ; &c., &c. 



Hence invoked at the Spring festival of the Thesmophoria : Ar. 

 Thesm. I o> Zev, ^eXiScbi/ apa nore (pavf/aerat : cf. Ar. fr. 499 rrvdov x c Xt5cbj/ 

 TTY]VLK arra (paiverai (Eratosth. ap. Schol. Plat. p. 371 ; vide also Suid. 



S. V. ttTTa). 



How the Swallow is visible in Egypt all the year, Herod, ii. 22, 

 Pausan. x. 4, 9 ; but never stays to nest in Daulis, the country of Tereus, 

 Pausan. 1. c. Neither does it visit Thebes, quoniam urbs ilia saepius 

 capta sit ; nor Bizya, in Thrace, propter scelera Terei, Plin. iv. (n) 18, 

 x. (24) 34 ; it goes, however, to rap Karca e^as, Babr. Fab. cxxxi. 



On Swallows used as messengers, Plin. x. (24) 34. 



Proverb. p,[a ^eXiScbi/ cap ov Troicl, Arist. Eth. Nic. i. 6. 1098 (from 

 Cratin., according to Cramer, An. Par. i. 182) ; cf. Ar. Av. 1417. 



The Rhodian Swallow Song, x e ^ l &o i/ta J JLa > sung in the month Boe- 

 dromion (?), Athen. viii. 360 c ^X0', rjXde x*XiS&>i/, | K a\as a>pas ayova-a,\ 

 KaXovs eviavrovs, \ eVi yaorepa \evKii, \ eVt va>ra peXaiva \ . . . avoiy avoiye \ 

 TCLV Bvpav ^eXiSdi/i* | ov yap yepovre's \ eVftej/, dXXa TratSt'a : emended by 

 Ilgen, Opusc. Phil. i. p. 165, Bergk, P. Lyr. iii. p. 671. Cf. Eustath. 

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