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XEAIAQN {continued). 



In Sappho, fr. (52) 88 tI pe Tlav8iov)s wpdva x*Xt8a>v, we have perhaps 

 a fragment of a ' Swallow-song.' This difficult line is variously read 

 and interpreted : Hesychius gives a> y pdwa x*Xiba>v opocpt], but the gloss 

 is, in my opinion, fragmentary and meaningless : Bergk, after Is. 

 Vossius, reads Z>" pawa ; I venture to suggest &pa via, as in Ar. Eq. 419, 

 which latter line is itself probably a fragment of a Swallow-song. 

 Another fragment of a Swallow-song perhaps exists in Horn. Carm. 

 Min. XV. II vevpai rot, vevpai eviavaios, &are yeXiScov \ evTTjic ev 7Tpo8vpois 

 yj/iXri nodas. In the Rhodian Swallow-song already referred to, two very 

 curious features are the alternate balance or ' parallelism ' of successive 

 lines and the apparent influence of accent on rhythm : the text has 

 been much emended by commentators, in order to obtain a more 

 accurate scansion than the song ever, perhaps, possessed. It is easy to 

 suggest yet other emendations : for instance in 11. 17, 18 av 8fj (pepys n, \ 

 p£y av ti dq fa'poio seems better than the common reading peya 8r) rt. At 

 the very best some of the lines (in their present state) seem to have little 

 rhythm and not much sense. 



A modern xfXifioj>io>ia, Fauriel, Chants de la Grece mod., i. p. xxviii 

 XfXidova epx^rat | an rrjv acnrpr]v ddXacrcrav' j Kadrjo'e na\ XdXrjcre. \ Mdprr], 

 Mdprr) pov KaXe | Kal (pXiftdprf (pXiffepe | k av ^ior/cr?/y, k av novTia-rjs \ ndXe 

 avoi£iv pvpl£ets. 



According to Bent (Cyclades, 1885, p. 434) the Swallow-song is still 

 sung in Kythnos (Thermia) and in Macedonia, on March I. Cf. 

 Grimm, D. Myth. p. 723 ; Swainson, Prov. Names of British Birds, 

 p. 50, &c, &c. Cf. also the Kopwi/iajxa, supra, s. v. Kopwyrj. 



A Melancholy Bird. — The myth of Itylus. Agath. xii, Gk. Anth. 

 iv. 8 dpcpnrepiTpv(ovai ^tXiSoj/fj, es S' epe ddicpv \ ftdXXovai. . . . aXX' 

 "ItuXoj/ /cXaiotre Kar ovpea, Kal yodoire | els enonas KpavarjV avXiv erf>e£6pevai. 

 Mnasalc. ix, Gk. Anth. i. 125 rpavXd pivvpopeva, UavbiovX ivapOeve, <pa>vq\ 

 Tt]peos ov depirvv &\jfapeva XeyeW. | rlnre iravapepios yodeis dva 8a>pa 

 X*Xi.86v : Anth. Pal. ix. 57 Tlavdiovl Kappope Kovpa, \ pvpopeva I Mosch. iii. 

 39 ovde roaov 6prp>r\crev av wpea paicpd Y.eXi§a>i\ Nonn. Dion, passim, 

 &C, &C. 



The Itylus-myth has been already discussed s. vv. drjSwi/ and €iro\|/. 

 In the association together of the Swallow and the Nightingale, a curious 

 feature is the similarity of the poetical epithets applied to both. The 

 epithet Uavdiovis, and the inclusion of Pandion in the myth, whatever 

 they may exactly mean, seem to me to have something to do with 

 the festival of the Ilavdia, which took place at Athens pera to. Aiovvaia 

 (Photius) ; that is to say, at or near the Vernal Equinox, and not far 

 from the time when the xcXid&ur/Mi is still sung. The statement of 

 Photius that Ilavdia is a name for the Moon, is also of great interest, 



