APPENDIX 



THE LONGEVITY OF THE RAVEN 



HESIOD'S lines, the locus classicus on the subject of the 

 great age of the raven, which, according to his calculation 

 far surpassed that of Methuselah, are as follows : 



ewca roi fact yei/ea? Xa/ce'/ovfa Kopwvtj 

 avSpwv fj&wvrwv ; eXa^o? Sc re TTpaKopu>vos, 



The Latin poet Ausonius {Idyl, xviii., i), translated and 

 amplified them thus : 



" Ter binos deciesque novem super exit in annos 

 Justa senescentum quos implet turba virorum. 

 Hos novies superat vivendo garrula Cornix, 

 Et quater egreditur cornicis soecula Cervus, 

 Alipedem cervum ter vincit Corvus." 



While Sir Thomas Browne, in his Vulgar Errors, iii.,p, 138, 

 has, in his turn, translated the translation thus : 



41 To ninety-six the life of man ascendeth, 

 Nine times as long that of the chough extendeth, 

 Four times beyond the life of deer shall go, 

 And thrice is that surpassed by the crow." 



