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nEAAP["OI {continued). 

 venire sed venisse cernimus : utrumque nocturnis fit temporibus. Cf. 

 Dionys. De Avib. i. 31. (Its departure is scarcely noticed ; Lindermayer, 

 op. cit., p. I54)« Ael. iii. 23 Tr)S &pas 8e ttjs Kpvp.a>dovs 8i€\0ov<rr]s } orav 

 VTroarptyuHJiv is tci idia, rqv eavrav emoTOS KaXihv dvayvapi^ovaiv, as 

 ttjv oIkiclv avBpaynoi. The precise regularity of their coming (cf. s. v. 

 •yipavoi): Lucullus to Pompey, ap. Plut. i. 518 D eira, ecprj, aoi dona 

 eXdrrova ra>v yepdvoov vovv Zx eip Kal Twv J^eXapymv, (bare rais wpais p.f] 

 crvppeTa^dXXetv ras diaiTas ; Cf. 6 neXapybs dXrjrrjs, Call. Fr. 475. 



According to Strabo, 221, 397, connected with TleXaayol, a nomad race; 

 cf. Dion. Hal. i. 28. 



Filial Piety. — Ar. A V. 1355 ^h v ® irarfjp 6 neXapyos eK7reTT]aip.ovs | 

 irdvras 71-0117077 tovs neXapyidrjs rpecpoav | del tovs veorTovs tov narepa ndXiv 

 rpecpeiv. Cf. Plut. Alcib. i. 135 D, Arist. H. A. ix. 13, 615 b, Ael. iii. 23 

 TpeCpeiv fxev tovs irarepas neXapyoi yeyi] paKOTas Kai eOeXovai Kai 

 ipeXeTtjaav' KeXevei de clvtovs vop.os avOpanriKos ovde els tovto, dXXd atria 

 TovTWV (pvais' 01 avTol de Kai ra eavT&v e<yova <piXovo~t, K. r. X. Origen, 

 C Celsum, iv evcrefieo-Tepovs eivai tovs neXapyovs twv dvOpoyirav. Cf. Fab. 

 Aesop. yea>pybs Kai neXapyos, Fab. ioo, ioo b (ed. Halm), Babr. xiii 

 ovk elpi yepavos, ov anopov Karacpdeipco | rreXapyos elpn (xh XP^V P € 0"qp.aiv€i) J 

 nrrjUGdv neXapyos evaefieo-Taros £<pa>v | tov ifxov Tidrjva) narepa Kai voarjXevco. 



Cf. Soph. El. 1058. See also verb dvrmeXapyelv, Suidas, Zenob. i. 94, 

 &c, and IleXapyiKoi w6fUHf Hesych., Suid., &c. The Stork as a primeval 

 law-maker is alluded to in Ar. Av. 1353, perhaps also ibid. 121 3. Hence 

 the Stork was honoured by the Egyptians, as an emblem of piety : Ael. 

 X. l6, Horap. ii. 55 tpiXomiTopa ftovX6p.evoi crr)p,rjvai avOpconov, neXapybv 

 £a>ypacpovaiv. ev Tois aKTprrpois dva>T(pa> fxev neXapybv tvttovo-i, Karcorepco 

 de noTdfxiov mirov. (Cf. Schol. in Ar. Av. I.e.) Cf. Phile, (vi.) 158 : Plin. 

 x - ( 2 3) 33 I J uv - Sat. i. 116 ; Porph. De Abst. iii. 11 ; Publius ap. Petron. 

 Sat. 55 ciconia etiam grata, peregrina, hospita, Pietaticultrix, gracilipes, 

 crotalistria. 



How the Storks teach their children to fly, Plut. ii. 992 B Kai tois neXap- 

 yidevaiv Spas eni tcov Teycov cos oi TeXeioi napovTes dvaneipa>p.evois v(f>r]yoivTai 



TTJV 7TTrJ0-LV. 



Destroys serpents, and hence honoured by the Thessalians. Arist. 

 Mirab. 23, 832 7repi QeTTaXiav pvT)p.ovevovaiv o(peis (cpoyovtjdqvai tovovtovs 

 coo-re, el p.q vnb to>v 7reXapya>v dvypovvTO, e'fc^wp^crai av avrovs. 816 drj Kai 

 Tip.a>o~i tovs neXapyovs, Kai KTelveiv ov vop,os' Kai e'dv tls Kreivj], evador rols 

 amols yiverai olanep Kai 6 avdpocpovos '. see also Plut. De Isid. C. 74, 

 Symp. viii. 7, Plin. x. (23) 33, Solin. De Thessal. Cf. Juv. Sat. xiv. 74 

 serpente ciconia pullos, Nutrit et inventa per devia rura lacerta ; Virg. 

 G. ii. 320. 



The Stork as food, Hor. Sat. ii. 2, 50, and Scholia ; cf. Corn. Nepos, 

 ap. Plin. x. (23) 30, Mart. Ep. xiii. 



