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He said,—and flung Around her neck his arms; and by his life, The life of Merops, and his sisters' hopes Of nuptial bliss, adjures her to obtain Proofs of his birth celestial.

They were the sons of the Percosian seer Merops, expert in the soothsayers' art1015 Above all other; he his sons forbad The bloody fight, but disobedient they Still sought it, for their destiny prevailed.

The Hoopoe is common, Merops, Pastor, and ravens. 

The large swift shot screaming overhead; and the cries of the troops of Merops, with silver-lined wings, resembled those of the sand-grouse.

I would call attention to the farther fact that in the Deluge legend of the Isle of Cos the hero of the affair was Merops.