XEAIAQN 191 



XEAIAGN {continued). 

 p. 578, Clem. Alex. Strom, v. p. 238, &c. Vide Class. Rev. 1891, pp. 

 1, 230. 



On Swallows commonly building within the house, consult Darnel, 

 Tour through Greece, p. 40, 18 19, and recent travellers: on their 

 entering ancient temples, cf. Clem. Alex. Protrept. iv. 52. 



How the Swallows restrain the overflow of the Nile : Thrasyllus in 

 Aegyptiac. ap. Plut. De Fluv. Nil. ii. 1 159 yewavTin de k<A aXXoi Xidoi, 

 koXXcotcs KaXovfievoL' tovtovs, Kara rqp dcrefteiav tov Nei'Xov, o-vXXeyovo~ai 

 XeXidoves, Ka.Ta(TKevd£ov(Ti to 7rpoo~a.yopev6p.evov xeXtdoviov TeT^or, onep eW^ei 

 tov vScitos tov pot£bt>, Kcii ovk e'a KciTaKXvapup cpdeipeadat Tt)v x<u)pav. Cf. 



Plin. x. (33) 49. Cf. also Ogilby's Fables of Aesop, 165 1, p. 54, cit. N. 

 and Q. (7) v. p. 346. 



There is perhaps an allusion to this legend in the story of the building 

 of the t( lx°s i n Ar. Aves, in which account we may note the references 

 not only to the Swallow but to Egypt and Egyptian birds. This con- 

 jecture is partly based on Rutherford's demonstration (supra cit.) that 

 there is no distinct reference to mud-«^/-building on the part of the 

 Swallow in v. 1151. 



White Swallows. Arist. H. A. iii. 12, 519 orav y^vxn ylyvryrai pdXXov, 

 \cvk6s yiverai. Cf. De Color, vi. 798, Theophr. De Sign. vi. 2, Alex. 

 Mynd. ap. Ael. x. 34. A White Swallow in Samos (connected with 

 the story of recovered sight), Arist. ap. Ael. xvii. 20, Antig. Mirab. 

 120 (132). 



Is hostile to bees, Ael. i. 58 (cf. ibid. v. II, Phile, 650) ol de [peXiTTovp- 

 yoY] tt]V xe\i8di>a aldol ttjs povcriK^s (cf. Ael. vi. 1 9) ovk dnoKTeivovai, koitoi 

 pablcos av avrrju tovto dpaaavres' dnoxpr) de civtois KcoXveiv Trjv ^eXiSdva 

 -rXrjaiov tSuv aipfiXoov koXluu v-Tonrjgai. Cf. also Virg. G. iv. 15 ; Chaucer, 

 P. of Fowles, 353, 'the swalow, mordrer of the bees small,' &c. Cap- 

 tures TtTTiyes, Ael. viii. 6, Plut. ii. 976 C, Phile, 713 ; cf. Even, xiii, supra 

 Cit., p. 186. Hostile to aiXcpai : Ael. i. 37 at aiX(pai to. a>d ddiKodariv' ovkovv 

 at pyre pes aeXivnv Koprjv TrpoftdXXovTai tcov PpeCpoov, Ka\ eKelvais to evrevQev 

 a^ard io-Tiv : cf. Phile, 738, Geopon. xv. I. Is fond of ivy (a Dionysiac 

 plant) Eurip. Alcm. fr. 91 noXvs d' dve'ip-re kio~o~6s, etcpvrjs KXddos, | ^eXiSdvajv 

 p.ovo~elov. 



In Augury. — Ael. x. 342 Ttparai de tj xeXiSobv Beols p.v\iois kcu ' AcppodiTrj. 

 Swallows nesting in the general's tent were (very naturally) an evil 

 omen, as in the cases of Alexander, son of Pyrrhus and Antiochus, Ael. 

 1. c. : but by returning to the citadel foretold the safe home-coming of 

 Dionysius (1. c). See also Ar. Lys. yyo dXX' ottotclv -rT^i-mai x*Xid6ves 



els eva %a>pov \ tovs enonas (pevyovaai, dnoax^vTai re (paXfjrav | navXa kclkcov 

 eo-Tcii, to. S' imepTepa veprepa Brjaei \ Zevs v\^i^pepeTT]s \ . , . rjv de diaaTwaiv 

 kul dvairT<i)VTai itTepvyeo~o~iv \ e£ lepov vaolo xeXidoves, ovkctl dogei | opveov old* 

 otiovv KaTcnrvywveo-Tepov ehai : the above passage is entirely mystical 



