For he calls them here wingless on account of the similarity of the sound of their name to that of the birds Ππελειάδες. And Myro herself also speaks in the same manner— The mighty Jove was nourish'd long in Crete, Nor yet had any of the heav'nly beings E'er recognised their king; meanwhile he grew In all his limbs; and him the trembling doves Cherish'd, while hidden in the holy cave, Bringing him, from the distant streams of ocean, Divine ambrosia: and a mighty eagle, Incessant drawing with his curved beak Nectar from out the rock, triumphant brought The son of Saturn's necessary drink. Him, when the God of mighty voice had cast His father Saturn from his unjust throne, He made immortal, and in heaven placed. And so, too, did he give the trembling doves (πελειάσιν) Deserved honour; they who are to men Winters and summer's surest harbingers. And Simmias, in his Gorgo, says— The swiftest ministers of air came near, The quivering peleiades. And Posidippus, in his Asopia, says— Nor do the evening cool πέλειαι set. But Lamprocles the Dithyrambic poet has also expressly and poetically said that the word πελειάδες is in every sense synonymous with περιστεραὶ, in the following lines— And now you have your home in heaven, Showing your title with the winged doves. And the author of the poem called Astronomy, which is attributed to Hesiod, always calls the Pleiades Πελειάδες, saying— Which mortals call Peleiades. And in another place he says— And now the Peleiades of winter set. And in another passage we find— Then the Peleiades do hide their heads; so that there is nothing at all improbable in the idea of Homer having lengthened the name Πλειάδες by poetic licence into Πελειάδες. [Sidenote: MEANING OF PARTICULAR WORDS.] 81. "Since, then, it is demonstrated that it is the Pleiades who were embossed on the goblet, we must understand that two were affixed to each handle, whether we choose to fancy that the damsels were represented under the form of birds or under human form;—at all events they were studded with stars: and as for the expression, "Around each there were golden peleiades," we are not to understand that as meaning around each separate one; for that would make eight in number: but as each of the handles was divided into two sections, and as these again were united towards the bottom, the poet has the word ἕκαστος, speaking as if there were four sections of handles; but if he had said ἑκάτερον, that would have applied to the fact of their again becoming united at the highest point which they respectively reach. And accordingly, when he says— And curling vines, around each handle roll'd, Bear two Peleiades emboss'd in gold; On two firm bases stood the mighty bowl;