2X0INIA0I— TAflX 1 65 



TAQI {continued). 

 Tiryns, Paus. ii. 17, 6) as Queen of Heaven (cf. Eur. Hel. 1096) from 

 its starry tail (Hehn) : cf. Ovid, Met. xv. 385 Iunonis volucrem, quae 

 cauda sidera portat ; ibid. i. 723; Juv. vii. 32; Stat. Silv. ii. 4, 26; 

 Claudian, Eutrop. ii. 330. Cf. also Joh. Lydus, De Menss. p. 66 mi 

 Taa>va rf)u opviOa toIs iepols rrjs "Upas ol <pvo~iico\ didoaaiv, olovel rbv 

 darepcoTrov depa, fjroi ovpavov. Cf. also Lucian, De Domo, xi. p. 908 ; 

 Hemsterh. ad Nigr. i. p. 247. The Peacock is associated with Hera 

 on coins also of Cos, Halicarnassus, &c. On a Roman zodiac (Millin, 

 Galer. Mythol. pi. xxix. fig. 86) a Peacock comes after Capricorn, 

 coinciding with the Athenian month Gamelion, the month (Hesych.) of 

 Hera; cf. Boetticher, Philologus xxii. p. 399, 1865, Pyl> Der Zwolf- 

 gotterkreis im Louvre, Greifswald, 1857, &c. [The association of Hera 

 with the month Gamelion (Jan.-Feb.) is due to the fact that this was 

 the month of the sign Aquarius ; and the connexion in turn between 

 Hera and Aquarius is connected with the fact that the Full Moon 

 stood in that sign when the Sun was in Leo, in the month of Zeus, at 

 the season of the Olympic festival.] 



The story of Argus, Mosch. Id. ii. 58, Ovid, Met. i. 720, Dion. De 



Avib. i. 28 (ppovpbs ovtos [6 racos] rjv rrjs 'iouy, rjviKa "Hpa kclt avrrjS 

 e )(a\e7raivev' ''Epp.rjs 6' dvelXev avruv, Kai TeXevTrjaavros, dvrjKev opviv r) yrj 



tcov 6<p6ahp,5iv %x 0VTa Ta 0-rjp.ela T<H>v npocrOev. Hence a Scholiast in 

 Ar. Av. 102 suggests (sed hyeme gallica frigidior est haec coniectura, 



Bochart) Tacts 6 Trjpevs' irapa to rrjpelv tyjv 'la). 



On Peacocks in Athens, in the time of the Persian Wars, Antiphon 

 ap. Athen. ix. 397 C tovtovs rpecpeiv Arjpop tov nvpiXapnovs nal iroXXovs 

 irapayiveo-Qai Kara nodov rrjs to»j> opvWav 6tas Ik t€ AaKedaip.ovos /cat 

 QeTTaXlas Ka\ (nrovbqv iroieio-Qai tcov olS>v peraXafielv . . . dXXa. ras p.ev 

 vovprjvlas 6 ^ovXopevos tUrjjfi, ras cV ciXXas fjpepas (I tls tXOoi fiovXopevos 

 6edo-ao~6ai, ovk '£<jtiv oaris eri^e. Kai ravra ovk e^es ovde irpoprjv, aXX' err] 

 irXiov rj rpiaKovrd ianv : cf. Ael. v. 21. Its rarity at the time is 

 suggested in Ar. Av. 102, 270: but already a nickname in Ar. Ach. 

 63 ; cf. Strattis, Ma/ce§. 7, ap. Athen. 654 F noXX&v cpXvdpcov Kal TaS>v 

 dvrd^ia. 



Its former rarity and subsequent abundance, Antiph. ap. Athen. ix. 

 397 a ro)V racbv pev a>s a7ra| tls £evyos rjyayev povov | o-rrdviov bv to XPVH- a 

 nXeiovs §' cla\ vvv rS>v oprvycov (at Rome), cf. Eubul. 3. 259 ; for other 

 citations, see Athen. xiv. 6546-655 a; iripwvro de rbv appeva Ka\ tov 

 6rp\w bpaxp&v fivpiav, Antiph. ap. Ael. v. 21 ; cf. also Plut. i. 160 d, 

 Plin. x. (20) 22,Varro, R. R. iii. 6, Macrob. Sat. iii. 13, &c. 



On the probably independent introduction of Peacocks into Rome, 

 cf. Hehn, op. c. 



The Peacock is an Indian bird, Aelian passim, Lucian, Navig., &c. ; 

 and was bred for the 'Indian' King, Ael. xiii. 18 iv toIs irapadeio-ois 



