CYNEGETICA, II. 406-426 



How again does the Bustard " of the shaggy ear * re- 

 joice in the swift Horse ! The Parrot " again and the 

 Wolf herd together ; for Wolves have ever a passion 

 for the grass-hued"* bird. Mighty Love, how great 

 art thou ! how infinite thy might ! how many things 

 dost thou de\ise and ordain, how many, mighty 

 spirit, are thy sports ! The earth is steadfast : yet 

 is it shaken by thy shafts. Unstable is the sea : 

 yet thou dost make it fast. Thou comest unto the 

 upper air and high Olympus is afraid before thee. 

 All things fear thee, the wide heaven above and all 

 that is beneath the earth and the lamentable tribes 

 of the dead, who, though they have drained with their 

 lips the oblivious water of Lethe, still tremble before 

 thee. By thy might thou dost pass afar, beyond 

 what the shining sun doth ever behold : to thy fire 

 even the light yields place for fear and the thunder- 

 bolts of Zeus hkewise give place. Such fiery arrows, 

 fierce spirit, hast thou — sharp, consuming, mind- 

 destroying, maddening, whose melting breath knows 

 no heaUng — wherewith thou dost stir even the very 

 wild beasts to unmeet desires. A marvel it is when 

 the winged Francohns leap on the spotted back of 



(».«. tetraonibus) sunt quas Hispania aves tardas appellat, 

 Graecia lirtSas. For Bustard and Horse cf. Ael. ii. 28 ; 

 Plut. Mor. 981 B ; Athen. 390 f; Dion. De av. iii. 8. 



* In ref. to the etymology un-is from oi's, arroj (ear). 



* Species unknown ; according to Prof. Alfred Newton 

 "the Greeks could not have known Psittacus Alexandri."'' 

 A. 597 b 27 ; Arr. Ind. i. 15. 8 ; Paus. ii. 28. I ; Plin. x. 1 17 ; 

 Ael. vi. 19, etc. 



■* Plin. I.e. viridem toto corpore, torque tantum miniato in 

 cervice distinctam ; Stat. S. ii. 4. 25 Psittacus ille plagae 

 viridis regnator Eoae ; Apul. Flor. 12 color psittaco viridis 

 . . . nisi quod sola cervice distinguitur . . . cervicula eius 

 circulo mineo velut aurea torqui . . . cingitur. 



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