AAEKTPYQN 25 



AAEKTPYGN {continued). 



Evpoonr), Mnaseas ap. Ael. xvii. 46 al p.ev ovv dXeicTopidfs i» ra> rrjs "Hftrjs 

 vefxovrai vf&, oi de iv 'HpaicXeovs oi rcovde yaperat : cf. Plut. ii. 696 E, Paus. 

 ii. 148. 



Ael. N. A. ii. 30, how a new-purchased cock, if carried thrice 

 round the table, does not seek thereafter to escape. lb. iii. 31, how 

 the lion fears the cock, and how the latter frightens the basilisk 

 to death : for which reason travellers in Libya take a cock along with 

 them. Cf. ibid. vi. 22 e^iora 8t t<3 pev Xcoptl irvp Ka\ dXeKTpvoiV : Aes. 

 Fab. 323 ; Plut. De Inv. iv (Mor. 650, 5), Sol. Anim. xxxii (Mor. 1201, 

 23). Hence also the use of a Cock to destroy the Lion-weed, fj XeoV- 

 reios 7r6a=6po(3dyxr), Geopon. ii. 42. 3. A confusion is possibly indicated 

 here with the Galli, priests of Cybele ; according to Varro, De R. R. 

 c. 20 (Nonius, s. v. mansuetum), when the Galli saw a lion, tymfianis 

 . . . fecerunt mansuetum : for other important references see Mayor's 

 note to Juv. viii. 176. Note further that a mystical name for the Sun 

 was AeW, and that those who participated in the rites of Mithra were 

 called Lions ; Porphyr. De Abst. iv. 16. Niclas, the learned editor of 

 the Geoponica (ed. 1781), and certain other historians quoted by him, 

 finding that a lion in Bavaria evinced no terror at the sight of a Cock, 

 but killed and ate the bird, still remained faithful to the old tradition, 

 asserting that that lion's spirit must have been broken by captivity : 

 scimus quam vim habeat consuetudo ; cum diu in galli vicinia detentus 

 esset, quid mirum, si eum ferre didicerit, &c. ! 



Paus. ii. 34. 2 ; at Methana (Troezene) a Cock with white wings was 

 torn in two by two men as a charm to protect the vines from the wind 

 An//-, cf. J. G. Frazer, Folk-lore, i. 163, 1890. See on Sacrifices of the 

 Cock, Sir J. G. Dalyell's Darker Superstitions of Scotland, 1835 ; Sir 

 S. Baker, Nile Sources, pp. 327, 335, &c, &c. 



On dKeKTpvopavTfia, see Lucian's Gallus, De Dea Syr. xlviii, Cic. De 

 Div. ii, Plin. x. (21) 24; cf. Mem. Acad. Inscr. vii. 23, xii. 49; Hopf, 

 Thierorakel, pp. 1 61-163. 



How some cannot abide a cock or a hen, Plut. fr. viii. 10 (12. 23). 



The Cock as a weather-prophet, Ael. vii. 7, Plut. Mor. 129 A, 

 Theophr. De Sign. i. 17, Arat. Progn. 960 (228), Geopon. i. 3, 8. 



How the flesh of a fowl absorbs molten gold, Plin. xxix. 25. 



Is hostile to array as, Ael. vi. 45. 



Proverb and Fable. 



dXeKrpvovos KoiXiav cx €lv > Ar. Vesp. 794 (i.e. the stomach of an 

 ostrich, to swallow pebbles), cf. Suid. 



aXcKrcop 7TLV€i Ko\ ovk ovpel, Suid. q.V. 



XrjOovai yap toi Kavepwv die^odot OrjXeiav opviv, nXrjv orav tokos Trapfj, 

 Soph. fr. 424. 



