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XEAIAflN (continued}. 



and obscure. How Swallows that had built in Cleopatra's galley were 

 expelled by others before Actium, Plut. Anton. Ix, i. 944 a ; cf. Ant. and 

 Cl., ' Swallows in Cleopatra's sails Have built their nests.' The Swallow 

 that fluttered round Alexander's head as an omen of treachery, Arr. 

 Anab. i. 25 rfjv yap ^eXiSoi/a <rvvTpo<pov re elvai opviQa Ka\ evvovv dv0pa>nois 

 Koi \d~\ov /iaXXoy rj aXXrjv opvi&a. See Class. Rev. 1891, p. 231. 



A Sign of Rain. Arat. Phen. 944 17 \L^vr]v nepi drjda ^eXiSoi/es' aiWoi/- 

 rai | yaarepi TVTTTOVO-CII avras flXevpf^ov iJScop : cf. Theoph. Sign. vi. I, 

 Virg. G. i. 377- 



Fables. The Swallow and the Nightingale, vide s. v. drjSwi/. The 

 Swallow and Eagle, Plut. ii. 223 F. The Wise Swallow and the Hen, 

 Acs. 342 (ed. Halm). The Crow and the Swallow, TO pev <rbv *aXXo? 

 TTJV eapivf]V &pav dvdf't, TO fie e/J-ov 0-co/za KOI ^ei/zooi/i TraparetWrai, Acs. 415* 

 The Crow (or the Swans) and the Swallow, rl av eiroirjo-as, el rffv y\S>TTav 

 ciX f ?) OTTOV TfjiTjdfia-rjs roo-avra XaXety, Acs. 416, 416 b. The Swallow and 

 other Birds, Acs. 417, 417 b. The Swallow building in the Law-court, 

 ot/zoi rj7 ev?7, on evda ItAvttt diKaiovvrai, \iovt] fyutye rjdiKrjiJiai, Aes. 4^j 



418 b : cf. Babr. 118. The Swallow out of due season, Babr. 131. 



XEAQNO<l>A'roi. A kind of Eagle or Vulture, Hesych. The name 

 suggests the Lammergeier. In Sparta the name xf\a>vidprjs is 

 said to be now applied to Aquila imperialis, but surely not to 

 the exclusion of the Lammergeier. 



The Lammergeier does indeed eat tortoises, as has been mentioned 

 above ; and it may accordingly be held that the name x\&vo(f)dyos 

 is manifestly so simple a descriptive term as to throw doubt on 

 my astronomical interpretation of the Eagle that slew the Serpent 

 or the Swan. But it is curious to note that the constellation of 

 the Tortoise is placed in very much the same relation to that of 

 the Eagle as is that of the Swan : moreover the Tortoise forms 

 part of the constellation Lyra, another name for which is the 

 Vulture, and to the latter 'bird' the Eagle is said also to be 

 hostile. It is only natural that those astronomical ' hostilities ' 

 should be the most commented on, which are somewhat akin to 

 zoological fact or possibility. 



XE'NNION, s. xmW. 



A kind of Quail, eaten pickled by the Egyptians. 



Athen. ix. 393 c piKpov S' eo-ni/ oprvyiov : cf. Cleomen. and Hipparch. 

 ibi cttt., &c. Pall. Alex, xxi, Gk. Anth. iii. 119 fj^ls 6' e<r6iop.v KK\TJ- 

 p.VOL a\p,vpa Triivra \ ^fwia KOI rvpovs, ^T/VOS aXiora XI'TTJ/. According to 

 Bent (Cyclades, 1885, p. 128) potted or pickled quails are still eaten in 



