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n E A E I A {continued) . 

 the Chaldaean deluge-myth, cf. Euseb. Chron. Armen. i. p. 50, &c, &c. ; 

 see also the representation on coins of Apamea, Eckhel, Doctr. Numm. 

 iii. 132, Friedlander, Kgl. Miinzkab. pi. ix, &c., &c. 



A similar explanation is given of the Dove of the deluge-myth. 



The Pleiades (as doves ?) fleeing before the hunter Orion, Hes. Op. 

 et D. 619. 



For references to the copious (and often unreliable) literature of 

 Pleiad-symbolism, see int. al., Pluche, Hist, du ciel, Dupuis, Orig. de 

 tous les cultes, Haliburton, New Materials for the Hist, of Man, 1863, 

 von Bunsen, Plejaden und Thierkreis, 1879, Nitzsch in Od. v. 272, 

 &C &c. 



How the soul of Ctesylla departed as a dove ; Nicand. ap. Anton. 

 Lib. i ; cf. Ovid, Met. vii. 370. 



The Pigeons of Dodona. Herod, ii. 55 rdde de AcocWaiW (pacrl al 

 npopavries, dvo neXeiddas peXaivas eK Qrjftecov ra>v AlyvrrTieav dvanTapevas, 

 rrjp pev avreoov is Aifivrjv, rqv de napa <r(peas dniKecrdai' l^opevrjv de flip 

 e'm tprjyov, avdd^aaOai (pwvf) dv6pa>7rr]ir), co? xpeoiv elrj puvTrjiov avrodi Aios 

 yeveadai. Ibid. 57 TreXeiddes de poi doneovcn K\r)dr}vai npos Au>d(ovat(ov 

 enl rovde al yvvmices, biori /3ap/3apoi rjaav' edoneov de crcfii opoicos Spvun 

 (pOeyyeaOat . . . peXaivav 8e XeyovTes eivai rr]V neXeidda aijpaivovai ore 

 AlyvnTir) rj ywrj rjv. Cf. Pausan. vii. 21, x. 12. On Alexander and the 

 doves at Ammon, cf. Curtius, iv. c. 7, Strabo, xvii. See also J. Arneth. 

 Ueber das Taubenorakel von Dodona, Wien, 1841 ; Perthes, Die 

 Peleiaden von Dodona, Progr. d. Progymn. zu Mors, 1869; H. D. 

 Miiller, Philol. Anz. ii. p. 95, 1870; Lorenz, op. eft., p. 35; Creuzer, 

 Symb. iii. pp. 183, 217. 



According to Thrasybulus and Acestodorus, ap. Schol. II. xvi. 233, 

 a dove had founded the oracle in the time of Deucalion. On the 

 pigeons of Dodona, see also Soph. Tr. 171 cos rqv naXaiav cprjyou avdrjaal 

 7rore I Aadcovi diaacbv i< 7re\eiddoi)v ecpr] : also ap. Schol. Pind. fr. Paean, 

 58 (30) ; Diod. i. 13, iii. 71 ; Sil. Ital. iii. 678 ; Serv. in Aen. iii. 466, 

 Eel. ix. 13. According to Strabo, ap. Eustath. in Od., p. 1760, and 

 Geogr. vii. fr. 1 a the priestesses were called ireXeiopdvre if, cf. Kopa<opdv- 

 tcls. According to Philostr. Imagg. ii. 33 (387 k), a choir of priestesses 

 danced round an oak, on which sat a golden dove. Dion. Halic. Ant. 

 Rom. i. 14, 41 compares with the Dodonaean dove the uIkos or 

 dpvoKo\d7TTr)s of the oracle of Mars. The whole story is intricate and 

 confused. It seems clear that the priestesses were called neXeiai (cf. 

 Paley, Aesch. Suppl. ed. 2, p. xiv) or irekeiopavreis ; and also that 

 the oracle was not essentially an augury or bird-oracle, but one in 

 which tree- worship, river- worship (cf. Macrob. v. 18), and thunder- 

 worship (cf. Mommsen, Gr. Jahresz. p. 432, &c.) were alike involved. 

 The doves of Dodona link on to the story of Deucalion, to the doves 



