So also in the vision of the women bearing the ephah, before quoted, "the wind was in their wings", not wings "of a stork", as in our version; but "milvi", of a kite, in the Vulgate, or perhaps more accurately still in the Septuagint, "hoopoe", a bird connected typically with the power of riches by many traditions, of which that of its petition for a crest of gold is perhaps the most interesting. The "Birds" of Aristophanes, in which its part is principal, is full of them; note especially the "fortification of the air with baked bricks, like Babylon", 1. 550; and, again, compare the Plutus of Dante, who (to show the influence of riches in destroying the reason) is the only one of the powers of the Inferno who cannot speak intelligibly; and also the cowardliest; he is not merely quelled or restrained, but literally "collapses" at a word; the sudden and helpless operation of mercantile panic being all told in the brief metaphor, ""as the sails, swollen with the wind, fall, when the mast breaks".