4 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AETOZ {continued). 



Fab. 419; Babr. 115. (On the mythical character of the Aeschylus 

 legend cf. Teuffel, Rh. Mus. ix. 148, 1854; Piccolomini, Sulla morte 

 favolosa di Eschilo, Pisa, 1883 ; Keller, op. c. pp. 257, 444.) 



The description in Arist. H. A. ix. 32 ecp' v^frfKa>v KaOifa Sia to fipaSecos 

 alpeaOai dno ttjs yrjs' vyj/ov 8e 7reVerai, O7rcos nr« 7r\eio~TOV tottov KaOopq, k.t.X., 

 suggests rather the habit of the Griffon Vulture (v. TrepKi/oVrfpor), which 

 is also the ' Eagle ' alluded to in like terms in Job xxxix. 28 ; cf. also 

 Ael. ii. 26, Horap. L II, ii. 56. The Griffon Vulture is the royal bird 

 of the East, the standard of the Assyrian and Persian armies (Xen. Cyr. 

 vii. 1. 4, cf. Is. xlvi. 11, Habakkuk i. 8 ; whence probably the Roman 

 Eagle), and the Eagle-headed God Nisroch (2 Kings xix. 37) of the 

 Assyrians (cf. Tristram, Fauna of Palestine, p. 95 ; see also Hammer, 

 Hist. Osman. i. p. 50, Creuzer's Symbolik, iii. pp. 649, 756, &c). The 

 crested Eagles of Assyrian sculpture (cf. Pocock's Descr. of the East, II. 

 pi. xvi ; Wood's Baalbec, pi. xxxiv), are merely a further development 

 of the solar emblem, and it is unnecessary to suppose (as does Hogg, 

 Ann. and Mag. N. H. (3) xiii. 1864, p. 520) that they are copied from 

 an actual crested species. 



The Persians, reverencing the Eagle, admired the aquiline nose and 

 cultivated it : Olympiod. in Plat. Alcib. i. c. 16, p. 153 ol Sokovvtcs apiaroi 

 tmv evvov^cov to. tovtov fiopia els koXXos dianXaTrovcri ypvnrjv nai rfjv plva 

 ttolovvt(S, evdeucvvp-evoi. to fjyf/JLoviKov fivai Kai j3ao~i\ac6v t6v nnlda' outco yap 

 /cat 6 aeros ypvrros icrTiv as fiao-ikiKos : cf. Hyde, Rel. vet. Pers. p. 374. 



A fine description of the Eagle's flight in Apuleius, Florid, i. 



Myth and legend. — The story of Prometheus, vide supra. 



The story of Ganymede. Strato in Gk. Anth. iii. p. 82 ; Anon. ibid, 

 iv. p. Il8 oUtos 6 Zeiis rjXdfv in avrideov Tavvprjdrfv, kvkuos eVri £av0r]v 

 prjrepa Tris 'EXeprjs i Theocr. xv. 1 24 ; Lucian, D. Deor. iv. 1 (i. 208), 

 Hor. Car. iv. 4. The statue of Leochares, Plin. H. N. xxxiv. 19, 29. 

 On coins of Chalcis, Dardanos, Ilia, &c. The story referred to the 

 constellation Aquila, Hygin. P. Astr. ii. 16, Germanic. Phen. 317, 

 Manil. Astron. v. 486, &c. 



The story of Leda : the Swan pursued by an Eagle ; Eurip. Hel. 

 17-22. The Eagle in combat with the Swan, freq., e.g. II. xv. 692, 

 Arist. ap. Ael. V. H. i. 14, Phile xv. 10, Statius Theb. iii. 524, viii. 675, 

 ix. 858, &c. On coins of Mallos in Cilicia, and Camarina (Eckhel, 

 Doctr. Numm. i. 1. 201, Imhoof-Blumer and Keller, pi. vi. 16, 17, &c). 



The Eagle with Dolphin on coins of Sinope, and other towns, 

 especially on the Black Sea and Hellespont, is taken by Keller as 

 symbolic of the fish-trade (op. c. p. 262) : the Dolphin here has 

 also been referred to the Eastern emblem of Eros (cf. Weber, Hist, of 

 Ind. Liter. 1882, p. 257), but is more probably simply the constellation 



