All having swallowed down foundation-stones,
Which with their beaks the rails still aptly shaped:
Another party of ten thousand storks
Were brick-makers: and water from below
The plovers and the other wading birds
Were raising up into the higher air.
Peisth. And who conveyed the mortar[[323]] for them?
Mess. Herons,
In hods (λεκάναισιν).
Peisth. And how did they get in the mortar?