epo^— HEPonox 59 



EPflAIOI {continued). 



Hostile to Tr'iiva), ra yap <oa KaTtaOUi kcu tovs vcottovs tov cpadtov, 

 Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609, cf. Nicand. ap. Ant. Lib. Met. 14 ; dcT<3 noXepios, 

 dp7rd£fi yap avrov, nal dXa>7re/a, (pOeipei yap avrbv ttjs vvktos, <a\ Kopvda, to. 

 yap o5a avrov KXeVm, Arist. H. A. 609 b ; hostile also to 6 Xcvkos Xapos, 

 Ael. iv. 5, Phile, De An. 682, and to sorer, Plin. x. (74) 95. Friendly 

 with Kopavr), Arist. H. A. ix. 1, 610, Ael. v. 48. 



Erodius, who tended the horses of his father Autonous, was turned 

 into the bird ipcodios, his father being metamorphosed into okvos, and 

 the groom into epoaSioy. dXX' ov\ opoiov' fjcraov yap iariv 'tKavcos tov 

 neWov : Boios ap. Ant. Lib. Met. 7. 



Swallows a crab, Kapnivov, as a remedy, Phile 724, or places one 

 in its nest as a charm, Ael. i. 35, Geopon. xv. 1. Noted, like the 

 stork, for filial and parental affection, Ael. iii. 23. 



On the painful generation of the Heron cf. Arist. H. A. ix. 1, 609 b, 

 Plin. x. (60) 79 ; hence a fanciful derivation of epcadios in Etym. M. and 

 Eust. ad II. x. 274. Vide infra, s. v. ireXXos. 



Fable of Xvkos ku\ epcodios (s. yepavos) '. dpicei cot ko\ to povov aa>av 

 e£eXeu> Trjv Kecpakrjv, Aes. Fab. 276, Babr. 94. A fragment : epoofiio? yap 

 ly^eXvj/ Maiav8ptT]v Tpiopxov evpatv eaOiovT dcpei'Xero, Simonid. ap. Athen. 

 vii. 299 C. 



Deprived by Neptune of the power of swimming, and why, Dion. 

 De Avib. ii. 8. The Island of Diomedea, Ael. H. A. i. 1 KoXtmii tu 



Aioprjdeia vrjaos, Ka\ epoadiovs e^fi iroWovs, and how these epcoSiot, once 



the comrades of Diomede, give welcome to Greek visitors ; also Lycus 

 ap. Antig. Mirab. 172 (188), Anton. Lib. Met. 37, Phile, De Anim. Pr. 

 152. Cf. Ovid, Metam. xiv. 498, Aen.xi. 271 et Serv. in loc, Plin. x. 44 

 (61). Cf. also S. Augustin, De Civ. Dei, xviii. 16, Lachmund, De Ave 

 Diomedea diss., Amstelod. (1672) 1686. There is evident but obscure 

 connexion between the story of the birds of Diomede, and the meta- 

 morphosis above alluded to : where the son of Autonous and Hippo- 

 dameia is killed by his father's horses, and his father and his servant 

 are turned into ipvdioL A story similar to that of the birds of Diomede 

 is wide-spread, and usually told of the Stork, cf. Alex. Mynd. ap. Ael. 

 iii. 23 ; for Modern Greek references, see Marx, Gr. Marchen, 1876, 

 pp. 52, 55. 



See also aor8oi>, doreptas, IXwpios, XcuicepwSios, or^os, ttcXXos. 



EY'PYME'AQN* deros, Hesych. {verb, dud.; for deros, Kuster cj. aItjttjs). 



ZA'PIKEX* inideTov ne\a[p]y5>v, Hesych. {verb. dub). 



'HAY'TEPAI- ai Tpvyovcs, Hesych. (verb. dub.). 



'HE'POnoi* A bird doubtless identical with depoyfr; vide s. v. pepoyjr. 

 According to Boios ap. Ant. Lib. Met. 18, the boy Botres was 



