KYANOI— KYKNOI 105 



KYKNOI {continued). 

 rare in Aeschylus ; not in Sophocles, save for nriXov kvkvciov in the 

 dubious fr. 708, ap. Clem. Alex. Strom. 716.] 



Description.— Arist. H. A. i. I, 488, viii. 12, 597 b opvis dyeXa'iosl 

 ib. viii. 3, 593 b, enumerated among to. (Sapvrepa tu>v o-TeyavoTr6bu>v : 

 ib. ix. 12, 615 fiioTevovai nepl Xipvas Kal eXrj, evfiioToi de kcu evr)6ets Kal 

 evTCKvoi Kal evyqpoi, kcu tov derov, edv ap£r]Tai, dpvvopevot vlkoktiv, avrol 

 6° ovk a proven pd\rjs. adiKol 6V, Kal rrepl ras TeXevras pdXiara a.8ovo~iv' 

 avcnreTovTai yap Kal els to neXayos, Kal rives fjdrj nXeovres ivapa ttjv Aiftvrjp 

 irepiervxov ev rrj daXdrrr) noXXols abovcri (peovj} yocodei, Kal tovtcov eoopcov 

 anodvrjo-KOVTas eviovs : cf. Ael. V. H. i. 14 Xeyei 'Apio-TOTeXrjs rov kvkvov 



KaXXinaiSa eluai ko.1 7ToXvnai8a, k.t.X. : cf. also Athen. ix. 393 d j Eustath. 

 ad Horn. II. p. 193 ; Dion. De Avib. ii. 19. Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 509 fya 

 awo^vadas oXiyas KarcoOev Kara rrjv tov evrepov TeXevrrjv. Occur abun- 

 dantly 'Ao-to) ev Xeipcovi, Kavo-rpiov dp(j)\ peeOpa, II. ii. 46 1 : cf. Virg. G. 

 i. 383, Aen. vii. 699; on the river Hebrus, Ar. Av. 768; on Lake 

 Aornos, in the spot called Pyriphlegethon, near Cumae, Arist. De 

 Mirab. 102, 839. Its flight described, Plin. x. (23) 32. The swan as 

 food, Athen. ix. 393, Plut. De Esu Cam. 2, &c. 



Myth and Legend.— On the combat with the Eagle, vide s. v. oLctos, 

 and compare also the story of Leda ; cf. also Ael. v. 34, xvii. 24 ; Dion. 

 De Avib. ii. 19. Is hostile also to dpaKav, Ael. v. 48, Phile 691. 



Is dXXr)\o<pdyos paXio-ra tcov opvecov, Arist. H. A. ix. I, 6lO (cf. aXXrjXo(f)6- 

 vos, Pice, A. and W., dXXrjXo(f>LXos , Sund.), cf. Plin. x. (23) 32 mutua 

 carne vescuntur inter se. Is killed by K&veiov, Ael. iii. 7 ; places the herb 

 Xvyaia in its nest as a charm, Boios ap. Athen. ix. 393 E. How the Indians 

 do not favour the swan, from its want of filial affection, Ael. xiv. 13 ; yet 

 the swan bewails its dead parent in Eur. El. 151, cf. Bacch. 1364 opvis 

 ottcos Ktjcpriva [dp<fri(3dXXei] noXioxpcos kvkvos. Associated with the op,(paXos 

 at Delphi, Plut. De Orac. i. 409 ; vide s. v. &6tos. A good omen to 

 sailors, Virg. Aen. i. 393, Aemil. Macer in Ornithogr. Anthol. Vet. Lat. 

 Epigr. et Poem. i. 116 (cf. Serv. in Aen. 1. c.) Cygnus in auspiciis semper 

 laetissimus ales, Hunc optant nautae, quia se non mergit in undas : 

 see also Stat. Theb. iii. 524 ; cf. the Swan as a figure-head, Nicostr. 

 iii. 282, &c. : cf. also the mythological (and astronomical) association 

 of the Swan with Castor and Pollux (Hopf, Orakelthiere, p. 177) : see 

 also Drummond in Class. Journal, xvi. p. 94. The Swan-maidens, 

 Kopai rpels KVKv6pop4>oi, Aesch. Pr. V. 797. According to Nicand. and 

 Areus ap. Anton. Lib. c. xii, a certain Cycnus, and his mother Thuria, 

 were metamorphosed into swans at Lake Conopa, xal noXXol ev rfj &pa 

 tov apoTov evraiida (paivovrai kvkvoi. 



On the Swan as the bird of Apollo, cf. Hymn. Horn, xxi, Callim. 

 Hymn. Apoll. 5, id. Hymn. Del. 249, Ar. Av. 772, 870, Ael. xi. 1, Nonn. 

 Dionys. xxxviii. 202 kvkvov aycov Trrepoevra, Kal ov Ta\vv Irnrov , Ati6XXg>v,&.c., 



