"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
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