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T1EPIXTEPA {continued). 



Sicilian doves mentioned, Alexis and Nicander, frr. ap. Athen. ix. 

 395 bj c > Philemon, ibid. xiv. 658 b. 



The story of Semiramis, forsaken as an infant by her mother 

 Derceto, and fed by Doves in the wilderness, Ctes. ap. Diodor. ii. 4, 4, 

 Ctes. fr. ed. Biihr, p. 393. Cf. Lucian, De Syr. Dea, ii. p. 885, Athenag. 

 Leg. pro Christ, p. 156 (ed. Otto), Ovid, Met. iv. 47. Cf. Phornutus, 

 De Diis, Cap. De Rhea eoiKe 8e rj nlrf) rj napa 2vpoi? "Apraya clpai, r\v 

 8ui to nepio-Tepas Kal 'i)(8vos dnex^o'dai ripaxri. See also Selden's De Diis 

 Syriis. Cf. also Hesych. 2ep.ipap.is, ir(pio-T(pa opews 'EWrjpurri. 



The Dove sacred also to Dione : Sil. Ital. iv. 106 Dilectas Veneri 

 notasque ab honore Diones Turbabat violentus [accipiter] aves. 



The Dove in connexion with the Cyprian 'ASoma, Diogen. ap. 

 Gaisford, Paroem. i. Pref. p. 5. On the Dove in connexion with 

 Aphrodite, see also Apollod. ap. Schol. Apollon. iii. 593. 



How Doves hatched the egg from which Venus sprang, Hygin. Fab. 

 197 ; Theon, ad Arat. 131. 



The Dove is not associated with Aphrodite in early Greek, unless, 

 as is not likely, the obscure fragment of Sappho (Bergk 16 (8), Schol. 

 Pind. Pyth. i. 10) indicate such an allusion. In later authors, the 

 references are very frequent : cf. Alex. Com. ap. Athen. ix. 395 B \cvkos 

 'AcppobiTrjs Trepio-rcpos : Apoll. Rhod. iii. 548; Plut. De Is. 71 (Mor. i. 

 463), &c, &c. Cf. also Virg. Aen. vi. 192 turn maximus heros Maternas 

 agnoscit aves ; Sil. Ital. iii. 683 Cytherei'us ales ; cf. Nero ap. Senec. 1. c. 

 On Venus' car with its team of Doves, cf. Ovid, Met. xiv. 597 ; 

 Apuleius, Met. vi. 6, 393 ; Claudian, Epithalam. 104. 



Venus and her Dove are associated with the month of April on the 

 cylindrical Zodiac of the Louvre, &c: and the sign Taurus was the 

 domns Veneris. This fact also has a direct reference to Pleiad- 

 symbolism. 



The Dove on the mystical monument of the 'Black Demeter' at 

 Phigaleia, Paus. viii. 42, 3. 



As an instance of the Syrian Dove adopted into Christian worship, 

 cf. Hefele, Concil. ii. 771 : how the clergy of Antioch, a.d. 518, com- 

 plained that Servius had removed the gold and silver doves that hung 

 over the altars and font [note the apparent confusion of ideas in 

 KoXvp^rjdpa], on the ground that the symbolism was unfitting. On 

 the nepio-rripiov, or receptacle in the form of a dove for the Blessed 

 Sacrament, cf. Chardon, Hist, des Sacram. ii. 242. On the sacred 

 symbolism of the dove, cf. also Euseb. H. E. vi. 29. 



Various Legends. — How Zeus pursued the virgin Phthia in Aegium 

 in the form of a Dove, Athen. ix. 395 a. 



How Doves led the Chalcidians to Cumae, Philostr. Icon. ii. 8. 



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