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TEPANOI {continued). 

 De Arte Gramm. i. 25, Mayor in Cic. Nat. Deor. ii. 49, Hemsterh. ad 

 Lucian, i. 305, &c, &c. ; cf. Cicero, De Nat. Deor. 1. c, Martial xiii. 75. 

 How each carries a stone, as ex flv Kc " fcSnw ko.1 irpbs rds e'p^uXas twv 

 di/efMov epfia, Ael. ii. I, cf. Antip. Sidon. cv, Ar. Av. 1137, 1429, Nonn. 

 Dionys. xl. 515, Plin. x. 30 (23), also Prov. yepavoi Xidovs KorartimMcvSauj 

 of provident men, Suid. ; and how the same is a touchstone for gold, 

 Ael. iii. 13. [In Plin. xxxvii. 72, the stone ye paving is said to be so 

 called from resembling the hue of the crane's neck.] How the oldest 

 crane, having encircled the flock, dies and is buried, Ael. ii. 1. How 

 they post sentinels, who hold aloft a stone for wakefulness' sake, Ael. 

 iii. 13, Plut. Sol. Anim. x, xxix, Plin. x. 30, Phil. De An. Pr. xi. The 

 stone still figures in heraldry as the crane and her ' vigilance.' The 

 crane an Egyptian symbol of vigilance, Horap. ii. 94. It observes the 

 time of its coming, ' intelligent of seasons,' Hes. Op. 448 tjr dporolo re 

 (rrjfxa </>f'pei, Kal yeip-aros Saprjv beiKvvei 6p.(3pr]pov. Theocr. Id. X. 3 1 and 

 Schol., Ar. Av. 710 cnreipeiv fiev orav yepavos Kpa>£ov<T is rr\v Aifivrjv 

 p,€Ta)(copfi. 



The fight with, the Pigmies. II. iii. 6 dvbpdo-i Uvyp.aloicri (puvov Kal 

 Krjpa (pepovaai, and Schol.; cf. Arist. H. A. viii. 12, 597 (lac. dud.) ov yap 



e'art tovto pvOos, a\X' coti Kara rrjV dXtjdeiav yevos u-ixpov p.ev, Sicnvep Xeyerai, 

 Ka\ avrol Kal oi Imroi, TpioyXodvrai S' elal top [$lov. Cf. also Strab. Geogr. 

 i. 2. 28, p. 35, xv. 1. 57, p. 711 ; Ctesias, Photii Biblioth.p. 68 ; Opp. Hal. 

 i. 620; Philostr. Imagg. ii. p. 375, Heroic. I.e., Babrius xxvi ; Apoll. 

 Vit. iii. 50, p. 136, &c. Frequent in Latin ; Plin. H. N. iv. 18, vii. 2, x. 

 2 3 (3°); Ovid, Met. vi. 90; F. vi. 176 nee quae Pygmaeo sanguine 

 gaudet avem ; cf. Julian. Anticensor. Epigr. 3 at/xan Uvyp.ala>v r)8op*vr] 

 yepapos: Juv. vi. 506, xiii. 168, &c, &c. A myth of the cranes and 

 pigmies in Boios ap. Athen. 393 C rjv tis napa rols Uvyp.aiois yvvl] 

 didarjpos, ovop.a Tepdua, k.t.X.: cf. Ael. xv. 29 ; Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 16 ; 

 Eustath. in Iliad. 1444. 14 ; Ovid. Met. 1. c. The legend of the Pigmies 

 appears in India in the story of the hostility between the Garuda bird 

 and the people called ki?-ata^ i. e. dwarfs, the SKiparai of Ael. xvi. 22 ; 

 cf. Megasthenes ap. Plin. vii. 2. It is quite possible that this fable has 

 an actual foundation in the pursuit of the ostrich by a dwarfish race. 

 (Compare also Addison's poem YLvyp.aioyepavop.ayia. ; Tyson's Essay 

 concerning the Pygmies, &c. 



The Cranes of Ibycus : the avengers of crime. Schol. Ar. Thesmoph. 

 l68 : Suid. S. V. "lfivtos' <rvX\r)<jide\s 8e vn6 Xgferfip Ar eprjpuas e(pr), Kav ras 

 yepdvovs, as ervyev vnepiirrao-dai, CKdUovs ytvecrdai, Kal avros p.ev dvypeO?; 

 p.cra de ravTa ra>v Xj]ar(i>v els ev rfj ndXei deao~dp,evos yepdvovs e(pr)' ide, at 

 'ifivKov eKdiKoi, k.t.X. Cf. Iambi. V. Pyth. xxviii. 12. 6 Spas rovs 

 puiprvpas. Cf. also Plut. De Garrul. p. 509 F, Nemesian. De Nat. Horn. 

 c.42, Eudoc. p. 247, Zenob. i. 2>7, Apostol. ii. 14, Diogen. i. 35, H. Steph. 



