176 Walter Petersen, 



' a little or young dolphin ' can scarcely have been thought of as 

 ' coming from a dolphin ' because -lovwO- does not show the meaning 

 ' descended from ' in certain cases. Moreover, the fact that young 

 animals when used as food are more tender and delicious than 

 old ones, led to these accessory notions, which may become dom- 

 inant, as e. g. in )rY]vtoy.o?, used of roast goose. To take care 

 cf this difference I subdivide both A and B : a) the animal is 

 not conceived as food, b) it is so conceived. 



Aa. ulexioQiaxoq : a}ixTwp, ' a little cock.' Aesop. Fab. 369 ; 

 Babr. ap. Suid. TavaypaToi aXexToptay.01. ol [j.a/Ti'^at xai D'U[j.t,xoi w; 

 avO'poiTTOi. Bajjpio? • a}.sxToptT/.c.)v r,v [xa/r, TavaYpaio)v, OXc, cpaaiv 

 slvai Oujxov w<77i£p «vDpco7:oi;. de?.qii't<sxog : BsV^tc, ' a little or young 

 dolphin.' Arist. H. A. 9. 48. 631 a 17 BslotvirTxov [X'apov teOvy]- 

 xoTa . . . uTuovsovTsc y.ai [xsTsoipii^ovTsc (sc. oi Boo BsloTvsc). xeavQivi- 

 axog ' a little x£G--pTvoc (fish).' Clearch. ap. Ath. 332 C 1(70$ so-iri 

 (sc. 6 saoxoiTOc) ■zoic, izccpcaymlSzcac xecTpivCcywOi? * outoi B' siotv 

 OY.zT.'hrk'KTuXoi [x^xhaTcc TO [j.Tjxoc. xoqaxLaxoc * xopa^, probably ' a 

 little or 3^oung raven.' Only Herodian 2. 445. 18. 



Ab. xanoiaxoc : xaTcpo?, ' a tender (little) boar.' Crobylus frg. 

 4. 567 (2) A?<7/uv6[j.svov YJxap xa7rp{»7xotj oy.aTOcpayou.^ x*/''<'^^^? ^ 

 yrjv, 'a delicious (httle) goose.' Eubul. frg. 3. 211 (i. 3) toi; Bs 

 ysvvaiw; 7:alai AisCTTCapaxrai Ospjxa yjivtoVvOiv [xsl"/). 



Ba. oQ^aYOQiaxog • /oipiBtov [xtxpov Hes. Cf. Ath. 139 B Ojouo-i Bs 

 xat, ■zou(; yoclccb-rivoijc, opQ-ayoptaxou^. I assume that the primitive 

 opOccyopa; - was used in the same sense and is accidentally not 

 quotable, so that -icrxo- would be used as in yoipirrAoc below. 

 aiQoviyioxoq: <7xpouO-6c, 'a (httle) sparrow.' Theod. Prodr. Carmen 

 in Andronicum Comn. v. 125. ^ 



Bb. xoiQiaxoc ' a delicious (little) porker.' Insc. Andan. Ditt-. 

 653. 68 (91 B. C.) lij-i Bs a BsT ^aps/siv izpb -zoo apytcb-M twv 

 [j.U(ji7Yjpuov • apvas Buo >>£uxou?, . . . xpiov su/pouv, xai . . . yoipi(yY.oi>c TpsT?. 



3. Plants or Parts of Plants. 



63. The accessory elements of youth and tenderness or dehcacy 

 may be present just as with animals, only that in the extant 

 examples the plant is not necessarily conceived as an article of 



^ A conjecture of Person for xal n^iaxovg xurctrfctyov. 

 ^ The derivation of oQ&ayoQng itself does not concern us here. 

 ^ The passage is not accessible to me, and the word is placed here only 

 because this would seem the most probable use. 



