1 88 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



XEAIAGN {continued). 



elcrlv ev dyyeiois eylnXapevai 7rdfX7rav. Cf. Plin. X. (24) 34 in vicina abeunt 

 apricos secutae montium recessus, inventaeque iam sunt ibi nudae atque 

 deplumes; Claudian, Eutrop. i. 118 Vel qualis gelidis pluma labente 

 pruinis Arboris immoritur trunco brumalis hirundo. In reference to 

 the migration, see also Aesch. fr. 48 nedoiKos (i. e. neroacos) xeXi§a>j\ 

 Arch, xxvi, Gk. Anth. ii. 86 alav oXr]v vrjaovs re bunrapevr] <rv ^eXiSobj/. 

 The Swallow as the bird of returning Spring : Hes. Op. et D. 568 (ii. 

 186) tov de per opdpoyor] Uavbiovls u>pio ^fXiScop | is (f>dos dvOpanois, eapos 

 veov lorap.evoio. Simon. 74 (l2l) ap. Schol. Ar. Av. 1410 ayyeXe kXvto. 

 eapos ddvubpov, | Kvavea x e ^^ ^ Stesich. fr. 45 (Bergk) ap. Eust. II. 10. 

 I orav rjpos apa KeXaS^ ;^eXiSa)i>. Ar. Pax 800 vpveiv, orav rjpiva. pev (pcovrj 

 \e\i8u)v I e^opevr) KeXaSrj. Id. Eq. 419 o-Ke\j/ao-6e naldes' ovx opa.6' ; copa 

 via, xeXi§o>!>. Id. Av. 714, &c. Ael. i. 52. Babr. 131. Cf. Ovid, Fasti, 

 ii. 853 Fallimur an veris praenuntia venit hirundo : Hor. Ep. i. 7, 13, 

 &c. Cf. also a well-known vase (first figured in Mon. Inst. Corr. 

 Archeol. ii. pi. xxiv) with the inscription \&ov xeXiSobf. Nj) tov 'HpaxXea. 

 Avrrji. "Eap ijdr). 



How the Swallows come with the wind yeXioWay or Favonius,Theophr. 

 H. P. vii. 15, 1, Plin. ii. 47. 



Artemid. p. 153 orav 8e to eap 7rapa(3dXr) npaTr] irpoo-eicnv' (as av eiuoi 

 a.Ttohei'Kvvovo~a rcov epycov eKaara, Ka\ orav ye (paivrjrai ovdenore eo~nepas 

 qdei, aXX' ecoOev r/Xi'ou dvio~x c >VTos ovs av £a>VTas KaTaXapjBdvoi v7ropipvfj- 

 a-Kovo-a T&v epycov : cf. Nonn. Dionys. iii. 13 kol Xiyvprj, peponeo-ai avvea- 

 tios, e'lapi Krjpvt;, \ opOpiov vtvvov apepae XdXos rpv^ovaa x*Xida>v | dvri(pavr)S I 

 Apul. Florid, ii. 13 cantum hirundinibus matutinum ; &c, &c. 



Hence invoked at the Spring festival of the Thesmophoria : Ar. 

 Thesm. I <J> Zev, xeXi&ibi' apd ttotc qbavfjaerai : cf. Ar. fr. 499 ttvOov ^eXiSobz/ 

 tttjulk arra q^aiverai (Eratosth. ap. Schol. Plat. p. 37 1 ; vide also Suid. 

 S. V. arra). 



How the Swallow is visible in Egypt all the year, Herod, ii. 22, 

 Pausan. x. 4, 9 ; but never stays to nest in Daulis, the country of Tereus, 

 Pausan. 1. c. Neither does it visit Thebes, quoniam urbs ilia saepius 

 capta sit ; nor Bizya, in Thrace, propter scelera Terei, Plin. iv. (11) 18, 

 x. (24) 34 ; it goes, however, to rds Kara Qi]fias, Babr. Fab. cxxxi. 



On Swallows used as messengers, Plin. x. (24) 34. 



Proverb.— pa xeAi8a)*> eap ov noiel, Arist.- Eth. Nic. i. 6. 1098 (from 

 Cratin., according to Cramer, An. Par. i. 182) ; cf. Ar. Av. 1417. 



The Rhodian Swallow Song, x 6 ^ ^ 10 "^ 01 ; sung in the month Boe- 

 dromion (?), Athen. viii. 360 c rjX6\ rjXde x*XiSa»/, | KaXcis copas ayovcra, I 

 KaXovs iviavTovs, \ M yaarepa XevKci, | eir\ vcora peXaiva | • . . avoiy avoiye \ 

 tclv dvpav ^cXiSoi/t" | ov yap yepovre's | iapev, dXXd 7rai8i'a I emended by 



Ilgen, Opusc. Phil. i. p. 165, Bergk, P. Lyr. iii. p. 671. Cf. Eustath. 

 1914, 45- 



