IEPAE— IKTEPOI 6y 



I E PAH {continued) . 

 heart is eaten, to obtain prophetic powers, Porph. De Abst. ii. 48. A 

 Hawk sitting on a tree a sign of rain, Theophr. Sign. fr. vi. 2, 17. 



The Fable of the Hawk and the Nightingale, Hes. Op» et D. 201, 

 Aes. fab. 9. 



A metaphor of the Hawk and the Crows, Ar. Eq. 1052. 



The metamorphosis of Hierax, Boios ap. Anton. Lib. iii ; cf. that of 

 Deucalion, Ov. Met. xi. 340. 



The Hawk entered in Egypt into innumerable hieroglyphics, in 

 which its image is, in the main, a phonetic element, the symbolic 

 ideas being, for the most part, secondary (cf. supra, s. v. (3cutj0). 

 According to Horap. i. 8 "Apea ypdcpovres kol 'Acppodirrjv, 8vo lepaKas 



faypacpovo-iv ; these are the symbols V\ and 



Horus and 



Hat-Hor, the latter being the oIkos "Qpov of Plutarch. According to 

 Chaeremon, fr. 8 ^u^-qXios-fleds = lepatj. On the sanctity of hawks in 

 Egypt, and the solar symbolism associated with them there, see also 

 (besides the references quoted above), Porph. De Abst. iii. 4 ; the Sun 

 called lepag, ibid. iv. 16, Plut. De Is. et Osir. c. 51, Eus. P. E. iii. 10, 

 Clem. Alex. Strom, v. 7. 



For other words and phrases in which the hieroglyph of the Hawk 

 had part, see Horap. i. 6 6ebv ftovXopevot o-rjpjjvai, r) vy\ros, 77 TaneivcoaLv, 

 rj vnepoxrjv, fj alp.n } r/ v'lkt]V, tepana £coy pacpovai : id. ii. 1 5 lepaf- 81a.TeTap.evos 

 ras iTTepvyas iv depi, olov nrepvyas e\ovTa avepov arjpalvai : id. ii. 99 

 avOponTTOv dnoTa^dpevov to. 'idia TeKva di a7ropiav fiovXopevoi arjpfjvai, lepana 

 iyKvpova £a>ypa<povaiv : Diod. Sic. iii. 4- 2 lepa£ avTots crrjpaivei ndvra to. 

 o£ea>s yevopeva. Cf. Klaproth ad Goulianoff De Inv. Hierogl. Acrolog., 

 cit. Leemans in Horap. p. 150, and especially Lauth, Sitzungsber. Bayer. 

 Akad., 1876, pp. 77-79. 



See also aladXwy, apaicos, j3anrj'8, |3dp|3a£, jiJeMounqs, eXetos, emXetos, 

 Kipicos, irepicos, Trrepkis, crm£tas, Tpiopx*]S, uiroTpidpx'ns, <f>aao-<x|>oVo$, 

 ^pui/oXdyos, &C. 

 'IZI'NEX- olcovoi, opviOes, Hesych. Cf. alewoi. 



'IKTEPOI. A bird with fabulous attributes; according to Pliny, 

 identical with galgulus, the Golden Oriole. 



Plin. xxx. 11 (28) Avis icterus vocatur a colore, quae si spectetur, 

 sanari id malum ["iKrepov, malum regium, the jaundice] tradunt, et 

 avem mori. Hanc puto Latine vocari galgulum (galbula, Mart, 

 xiii. 68). Cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 27 ; Coel. Aurel. Chron. iii. 5 passio 

 vocabulum sumpsit secundum Graecos ab animalis nomine, quod sit 

 coloris fellei. Cf. Schneider, in Arist. H. A. ix. 12 ; and Suid., who derives 

 the word from Iktivos. Vide infra s.v. x a P<*&pios. 



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