XEAIAflN 191 



XEAIAilN [continued-]. 



p. 578, Clem. Alex. Strom, v. p. 238, c. Vide Class. Rev. 1891, pp. 

 i, 230. 



On Swallows commonly building within the house, consult Darnel, 

 Tour through Greece, p. 40, 1819, and recent travellers: on their 

 entering ancient temples, cf. Clem. Alex. Protrept. iv. 52. 



How the Swallows restrain the overflow of the Nile : Thrasyllus in 

 Aegyptiac. ap. Plut. De Fluv. Nil. ii. 1159 yei>i>>vT<u de KOI a'XXoi Xtfot, 

 KoAXa>Tes KoXovfufvoi' TOVTOVs, Kara rfjv dcrefteiav TOU Nei'Xou, o-vXXeyovaai 

 ^eXiSoj/es', KaracTKevd^ovo'i TO 7rpoo~a.yopev6fj.evoi> ^\tdovtov rei^ofj onep eVe^ei 

 TOU vSaros TOV poio/', Kal OUK e'a KaTaK\vo~p.M <pdeipeo~dai rfjv %a>pav. Cf. 



Plin. x. (33) 49. Cf. also Ogilby's Fables of Aesop, 1651, p. 54, tit. N. 

 and Q. (7) v. p. 346. 



There is perhaps an allusion to this legend in the story of the building 

 of the Tf"ixs in Ar. Aves, in which account we may note the references 

 not only to the Swallow but to Egypt and Egyptian birds. This con- 

 jecture is partly based on Rutherford's demonstration (supra cit.) that 

 there is no distinct reference to mud-^/-building on the part of the 

 Swallow in v. 1151. 



White Swallows. Arist. H. A. iii. 12, 519 orav ^vxn yiyvrjTat /LtSXXoj/, 

 \evKos yiveTui. Cf. De Color, vi. 798, Theophr. De Sign. vi. 2, Alex. 

 Mynd. ap. Ael. x. 34. A White Swallow in Samos (connected with 

 the story of recovered sight), Arist. ap. Ael. xvii. 20, Antig. Mirab. 

 120 (132). 



Is hostile to bees, Ael. i. 58 (cf. ibid. v. II, Phile, 650) 01 6e [/ueXm-oup- 

 yoi] rfjv ^eXiSora aldol rijs p.ov(TiKr)S (cf. Ael. vi. 19) OVK cEarOKrctyoiun, KCIITOI 

 paStW av avrrjv TOVTO dpdcravres' aTro^pn &e avrols Ka>\viv rfjv ^eAiSoi/a 

 Tr\r)<rlov r5)v <rip.p\a>v KaXiuv vnonrjgai. Cf. also Virg. G. iv. 15 ; Chaucer, 

 P. of Fowles, 353, 'the swalow, mordrer of the bees small,' &c. Cap- 

 tures Ttrrtye?, Ael. viii. 6, Plut. ii. 976 C, Phile, 713 ; cf. Even, xiii, supra 

 tit., p. l86. Hostile to (ri\(pai : Ael. i. 37 al o-iXfpai TO. oi'a d8iKou<nv' OVKOVV 

 at nqrepes aeXivov KofJirjv ?rpoj3aXXoj/rai TCOJ> ftpeffxav, Kal eKeivais TO fVTfvdev 

 a/3ara eVni/ : cf. Phile, 738, Geopon. xv. I. Is fond of ivy (a Dionysiac 

 plant) Eurip. Alcm. fr. 91 TTO\VS 8' di/etp7re KKTO-OS, tv<f>vr)s K\dSos, \ ^eXiSoi/a)!/ 

 p.ovo~elov. 



In Augury. Ael. x. 342 Ti/iarat Se 17 ^eXiSobj/ Qtois fjLV)(iois Kal 'A(ppoSi'r?7. 

 Swallows nesting in the general's tent were (very naturally) an evil 

 omen, as in the cases of Alexander, son of Pyrrhus and Antiochus, Ael. 

 1. c. : but by returning to the citadel foretold the safe home-coming of 

 Dionysius (1. c.). See also Ar. Lys. 770 dXX' OTTOTOV TTT^COO-I ^eXiSoj/e? 

 ei? ei/a x&pov | TOVS eTronas (f)evyovo~cii ) a7rd(r^aji'rai re (paXrjTcov \ TravXa KCLK)V 

 eorai, ra S' VTTf'prepa vepTepa tfqcrei | Zet/s v\^i/3pe/zeVj;9 | . . . fjv de dtao-Ta>o-iv 

 KOI dvaiTTOiVTai TTTfpvyeo-criv \ e' tepoO vaolo ^eXiSot/es', OVKCTI 86get \ opveov ovd* 

 OTIOVV KaTairvyuvfo-repov clvai : the above passage is entirely mystical 



