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"Most beings spring .from other individuals: but

there is a certain kind which reproduces itself. The

Assyrians call it the Phoenix. It does not live on fruit

or flowers, but on frankincense and odoriferous gums.

When it has lived five hundred years, it builds itself a

nest in the branches of an oak, or on the top of a palm

tree. In this it collects cinnamon, and spikenard, and

myrrh, and of these materials builds a pue on which it

deposits itself, and dying, breathes out its last breath

amidst odours. From the body of the parent bird, a

young Phoenix issues forth, destined to live as long

a life as its predecessor. When this has grown up and

gained sufficient strength, it lifts its nest from the tree

(its own cradle and its parent s sepulcher), and carries.

it to the city of Heliopolis in Egypt, and deposits it in

the temple of the Sun."

Ovid s Metamorphoses,

Book XV, beginning line 579