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riEAAPrOI {continued'). 



Myth and Legend. — Hostile to atOvia, Ael. iv. 5, Phile, 680; to 

 vvKTepis, Ael. vi. 45. Uses oplyavov as a remedy, Arist. H. A. ix. 6, 

 612, Ael. v. 46, Plin. viii. 27. How the bats (wKTepides) render the 

 Stork's eggs unfruitful, and how the Stork defeats them with a leaf of 

 7r\aTavos, Ael. i. yj , Geopon. xiii. 13, xv. 1, 18; according to Anatol. 

 p. 298, a tortoise-bone is equally efficacious. A Stork's stomach is 

 a specific for the murrain of sheep and goats, Geopon. xviii. 11 ; cf. 

 Plin. xxix. 33. 



A young Stork, a prophylactic against ophthalmia, Plin. xxix. 38. 



A messenger of Athene (cf. cpwSios), Porph. De Abst. iii. 5. 



Story of Alcinoe, an unfaithful wife: Ael. viii. 20 tovto awidcov 6 

 neXapyos d oIk€tt)s ov% vnifieivev, dXXci (TifKaprjcre ro5 deanoTT)* 7rpoa7rr]dcov 

 yovv inrjpcocre ttjS dvdpanov rfjV oyjnv I cf. Apostol. xiv. 1 5, p. 609. Story 

 of Heracleis, to whom the Stork, healed of a broken leg, brought next 

 year a magic pebble : ibid. viii. 22 rfjv 8' ovv Xidov evbov irov KareOero, 

 elra vvKTcop divnvicrBdaa Spa avyrjv riva Kai a'iyXrjv d(pielcrav } m\ KareXapLneTO 

 6 oikos cos €(TKop.icr8eiaT)s dados : cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 31. The stone was 

 probably the stone Xvx VLS or XvxvIttjs, cf. Plin. xxxvii. (17) 103, and 

 Philostrat. V. Apoll. Tyan. ii, 14 neXapyol KaXias ovk av nrj^aivro, prj nporepov 



avrais (vapfxoaavTcs top Xvxvittjv Xidov : cf. also Lucian, De Dea Syr. 32 ; 

 Orph. Lith. 268. 



Metempsychosis : Alex. Mynd. ap. Ael. iii. 23 orav is yrjpas dcpiKcovrai, 

 TrapeXOovTas avTOVt is ras ' QKeaviTidas vrjtrovs dpeifieiv rot eldq is dvdpioTTOv 

 p.op(pr]v, Kai cvo-efieias ye ttjs is tovs yeivapevovs aOXov tovto ic^eiy, aXXtos 

 re, ft ti iyco voco, ko\ vnodeaOaL t<ov Becov (3ovXop.evcov tovto yovv tgov dvOpcb- 

 7TQ0V tcov ineWi to yivos evades KaX oaiov, iire\ ov% olov re rjv iv tt} aXXj] yfj 

 vqV rjXico toiovtov diafiiovv : cf. the story of the birds of Diomede (s.v. 

 epwStos), and see for accounts of similar superstitions in recent times, 

 Schwenk, Slav. Mythol. p. 129 ; cf. also August Marx, Griech. Marchen, 

 pp. 50-55, Stuttgart, 1889. 



riE'AEIA, s. ireXei&s. Also ireXTjids, Opp. Cyn. i. 351. 



A Pigeon or Dove. The Epic word : used for irepio-Tepd also by 

 the Dorians (Sophron. ap. Athen. ix. 394 D), and by the Ionians 

 (Hipp. 638. 8, 667. 3 : cf. Lat. pal-umba. Commonly said to be 

 connected with ireXos, ttoXios, &c. ; cf. Hesych. *A««u a peXaivat. 



7repio-Tepai, and Eustath. Hom. p. 1262 7re'Xeia de ov% arrXcos irepi- 

 arepd, eidos de Tt irepiaTepas, cos rj Xe£is inibrfXol' neXov yap to p.eXdvi£ov, 



ig ov Ka\ 6 ireXapyos. . Nevertheless, the derivation appears to me 

 somewhat dubious; for all the wild pigeons, the Turtle-dove 

 excepted, are very much of a colour, and I do not think the 

 Greeks would have spoken of black pigeons until they had got 



