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IYT= {continued}. 

 Ael. xv. 19, Opp. Hal. iv. 132 ; still more loosely used in Ael. ii. 9, v. 40, 

 xii. 46, xiv. 15, &c. Compare also Virgil's translation of Theocritus, 

 Ducite ab urbe domum mea carmina, ducite Daphnin. The magic 

 wheel was properly called poppos, Theocr. ii. 30, Orphic, fr. xvii 

 (Hermann) ap. Clem. Alex. Strom, p. 15. 8, Luc. D. Meretr. iv. 5, &c; 

 <TTp6(t>a\os } Schol. ad Synes. 361 D, Psell. in Schol. ad Orac. Chald., 

 TpoxLvKos, Tzetz. Chil. xi. 380 (trochiscilus, Apul. De Mag. xxx), cf. Clem. 

 Alex. Strom, v. 8, or pi<6s, Suid., and in Lat. rkom&us, Mart. ix. 30, 

 Propert. iii. 6, 26, rota, Plaut. Cistell. ii. 1. 4, or turbo, Hor. Epod. xvii. 7. 

 It was probably similar to, though not identical with, the ponrpov, or 

 tambourine of the Corybantes, and the bird was, like that instrument, 

 associated with the worship of Rhea, Dion. De Avib. i. 23. According 

 to Marcellus in Nonn. Dionys. ix. 116, the popfios was (and under the 

 same name still is, in Italy) an instrument twirled round at the end of 

 a thong, which means to say, I suppose, that it was a ' bull-roarer ' ; if 

 this be so, the tvyg rerpaKvapos was not rotated round on its own axis, 

 but spun at the end of a string, as we spin cockchafers. Concerning 

 the magic wheel, see also Selden, De Diis Syr. i. 1, 33. 



The bird is represented on a vase in connexion with Dionysus, Brit. 

 Mus. Vase Cat. No. 1293 ; and the Pindaric epithet ttoikiXt? has been 

 interpreted as a link in its Dionysiac character (cf. R. Brown, jun., 

 Dionys. Myth, i. 339). In this connexion the name'Iuyyvt for Dionysus 

 (Hesych.), is very interesting. Another vase (No. 1356) represents 

 Adonis holding out the bird to Aphrodite. 



"vyt; was also used metaphorically for love or desire, cf. Aesch. Pers. 

 989, Lye. 310 and Schol. Heliodor. iv. 15, &c. 



The ury£ in Anth. Pal. v. 205 was engraved on an amethyst, xpucra> 

 iroiKi\6elaa, Siairyeo? e£ dpedvarov | ykvitrr} : it is represented on a gem, 

 associated with Jason and the Golden Fleece (Imh.-Bl. and K. pi. xxi. 

 21, p. 131) probably in illustration of Pind. Pyth. iv. 



According to Nicander, ap. Anton. Lib. Met. 9, one of the nine 

 Emathidae, daughters of Pierus, was metamorphosed into the bird 



The iuy£ was equally sacred among the ancient Persians and Baby- 

 lonians, Marini Proclus, xxviii, cf. Hopf, Thierorakel, p. 144. See also 

 the remarkable description of the Royal Judgement-seat at Babylon, 

 Philostr. V. Apollon. i. 25, where however the precise meaning of tvyg is 

 not clear : diKa^ei pev 8f] 6 fiaaiXevs ivTavOa' xpwai de 'Ivyyes diroKpepaPTai 

 tov opo(pov TerrapfS, tt]v 'Adpaareiav avTco napeyyvaxrai, Kai to prj vnep tovs 

 dv8pd)7rovs cupecrdai' ravras ol pdyoi avroi cpaaiv dppoTreadai, cpoiTcovre? is 

 ra fiaaiXeia' KaXovai 8e avrds 6ea>v y\d)o-(ras ; cf. Creuzer, Symb. ii. 221. 



See also Pseudo-Zoroaster, fr. 54, ed. Cory. 



