[Meaning] the tree [of that name].[1]
And the bird [of that name]. In the time of Emperor Claudius[2] they say that this appeared to the Egyptians after 654 years.[3]
Also [sc. attested is] phoenix meaning foinikou=s ["crimson, dark-red"].[4] Homer [says]: "[one] that was blood-bay for all the rest".[5] In reference to a horse.
So concerning the bird it is on record[6] that when it reaches the [time] alloted by destiny it comes into Egypt, from somewhere unknown to men; and it makes a pyre for itself out of cassia and myrrh and it dies. And when the pyre has burnt out, after a while they say that a worm is born from the ashes; this is transformed and becomes again a phoenix and it flies away from Egypt to the place where[7] the other phoenix before him came from.