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AETOI {continued). 



adjacent to Aquila (cf. Manil. Astron. i. 353). See for other views, 

 Welcker, Der Delphin und der Hymnus des Arion, Rhein. Mus. i. 

 pp. 392-400, 1833. 



The myth of Nisus and Scylla or Ciris, Virgil (?) Ciris, Hygin. Fab. 

 198, Ovid, Met. viii. 146, &c. (a Semitic solar myth, O. Keller, I.e. 

 p. 259) ; see also E. Siecke, De Niso et Scylla in aves mutatis, Berlin, 

 1884, vide s. v. dXideTog. 



The transmigration of Agamemnon, Plato, Rep. x. p. 620 ; of King 

 Periphasof Attica, Anton. Lib. Met.vi ; Ov. Met. vii. 399(cf.Th. Panofka, 

 Zeus und Aegina, Berlin 1836) ; of King Merops of Cos, Anton. Lib. 

 Met. xv. Cf. the ceremony at the consecration of a dead Emperor : 

 derbs dcpierai crvv too nvpl dve\evaop.evos is tov aldepa, os (pepeiv dnb yijs 

 is ovpavbv Trjv tov /3acri\ea>? y^v\rjv mareveTaL virb 'Poo/naiW, Herodian, 

 iv. 2. 11 ; cf. Dio Cass. lvi. 42, lxxiv. 5. 



The Eagle as a portent (d. reXeiorctTos) in connexion with the founding 

 of the Ptolemaic dynasty, Suid. s. v. Adyos : of the Phrygian dynasty by 

 Gordius, Arrian, Anab. ii. 3, Ael. xiii. 1 ; of the Persian by Achaemenes, 

 Ael. xii. 21 ; with the birth of Alexander, Justinus xii. 16. 5. 



The Eagle a portent of death : derbs iniKa6eo-6e\s rfj Ke(pa\rj tov IBovtos 

 Odvarov avra pavreveTai, Artemid. Oneirocrit. i. p. 112 (ed. Hercher). 



On the Eagle in augury cf. II. viii. 247, xii. 200, Od. ii. 146, xx. 242, 

 Aesch. Ag. 115, Ar. Vesp. 15, &c. : doubtless also referred to, though 

 unnamed, in such passages as Orph. Lith. 45, Aesch. Sept. c. T. 24, Pr. V. 

 486: still more frequent in Latin, e.g. Liv. i. 24; Cic. De Divin. i. 47, 

 ii. 48 ; Sueton. Octav. 94, 96, 97 ; Valer. Max. i. 4. 6, Plut. Brutus xxxvii, 

 &c. See Hopf, Thierorakel, pp. 87 et seq.; Spanheim in Callim. Hymn. 

 Jov. 69. 



On Eagles in the Mithraic mysteries, Porphyr. De Abst. iv. 16. How 

 the Etruscans understood the language of eagles, ibid. iii. 4. 



An Eagle's nest with seven eggs (!), as a portent, Plut. Marius, xxxvi. 

 An Eagle's nestling in symbolism and dream-prophecy, Horap. ii. 2 (cf. 

 Leemans in loc). 



The mythical genealogy of the Eagle : Arist. De Mirab. 835 a, i. (60) 

 €/c tov £evyovs be ra>u dercov Odrepov ra>v iyyovcov dXiaieros yiverai napaXXd^ 

 eco? av av£vya yevrjTOi. iic 8e dXiaiercov (prjvr) yiverai, in de tovtu>v nepicvol 

 k. yvrres, k. t. X. ; cf. GeoKpovos, dXideTOS, 4>fy' t \, & c « 



How (pr)vr) rears its young, Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619, Antig. Hist. Mirab. 

 4 (52), cf. Plin. x. 3. 



How the Eagle feeds and defends its young, and is affectionate 

 towards them, Ael. ii. 40, Opp. Ven. 115, Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619 (cf. 

 Deut. xxxii. 11), but nevertheless casts them out, 81b. <j>66vov, (pvaei ydp 

 icrn (pdovepbs Kai o^vneivos, en he o^vXa^rjs, Arist. ibid. How it lays three 



