lO A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AETOI [continued). 



I. 4 (cf. Keller, op. c. pp. 240, 435). On the sceptre of Zeus at Olympia, 

 Pans. V. II. I (copied on a late coin of Elis) ; and at Megalopolis, id, 

 viii. 31. 4 (cf. Pind. P. i. 6 evbei ava aKanra Aios aleros, Soph. fr. 766 

 (TKr]nTof3dijLa>v iiUt(')s, Schol. in Ar. Av. 510); on pillars before the altar 

 of Zeus Lycaeus, in Arcadia, id. viii. 38. 5 ; on the Omphalos at Delphi 

 (cf Soph. O. T. 480), Pind. P. iv. I XP^^^^^ ^"'^ mr]T5)v ndpeSpos (simi- 

 larly on coins of Cyzicus). Cf Plut. de Orac. i. 409 dfrovs rivas, *] 

 KVKVOVS, fivdoKoyoiaip djro rcov aKpatv ttjs yiis errl to ixecrov (pepofievovs els 

 TuvTo a-vixnea-flp Uvdo'i nepl top KaX. 6p<paXov. The great mechanical 

 Eagle with outspread wings on the altar at Olympia, Pans. vi. 20. 12. 

 On the shield of Aristomenes at Messene, Paus. iv. 16. 7 (cf account 

 of shield in Eurip. fr. Meleag. iv, and on the shield of Aeacus, Zrjva 

 voQov, (To(f)bv opviv, Nonn. xiii. 214). For references to coins, v. supra, 

 passhn. 



The gable of a temple was called diTik, Ar. Av. mo, or airuipa, 

 Suid. Cf. Eur. fr. Hypsip. Ihov rrpos alBtp i^aplWrjcrai Kopais, ypair- 

 Tovs iv auTolai npocrfiKiTTiov Tvnovs '. Pind. 01. xiii. 21 tls yap . . . rj Oioiv 

 vaolfTiv olavSiv ^naikea hlbvpov enfOrjKe ; cf. Pind. fr. 53, ap. Paus. x. 5. 12, 

 and Bergk's note ; Tacit. H. iii. 71 ; Bekker Anecd. p. 348. 3 derov 

 fiipeiTui <T-)(r]p.a diTojeTaKOTos to. iTTepd : for Other references see Blaydes, 

 in Ar. Av. 1106. Compare the Sacred Hawk or Eagle, or the winged 

 solar disc, on Egyptian gables, &c., and on Mithraic monuments. 

 See Bronsted, Voy. en Grece, ii. 154; Welcker, Alte Denkmaler, i. 3. 

 A conventional ornament on the gable even of modern buildings in 

 the Greek style, still represents the degenerate emblem of the Eagle's 

 wing. 



See also, besides the special references to the other Eagle-names 

 enumerated above, kindred mythological references s. vv. yu\J/, lepa^, 



TTepKTOTTTepOS, <|>Tl'Y). 



'AZEINOI'. also dl^eCTifxoi' kvkvoi. Tn'n TVTepv^iv dnoXcipjBdvovTfs d(pn, Hcsych. 



'AHAn'N, T| [o o., Anth. Pal. vii. 44, Eust. 376. 24 ; for grammatical forms, 

 see Bergk. Philol. xxi'i. p. 10, Ahrens in Kuhn's Zeitschr. iii. p. 81, &.C.] 

 Also dtj8oi'ii (Eur. Rhes. 550, Theocr. viii. 38, freq. in Gk. Anthol., &c.), 

 dSovii (Theocr., Mosch.), djitjdwv = dfrjSav, Hesych., and dr^Sco, Soph. 

 Aj. 628. Dim. drjBovcSevs, Theocr. xv. 121. Rt. vad, to sing, deido), &.c. 



The Nightingale, Motacilla liiscinia, L., DauUas luscmia, auctt. 



Mod. Gk. djySo'i/t, applied to various Warblers. 



Od. xix. 518 Unvhnpeov Kovprj ;^Xcap7;if drjbav. [German commentators, 

 translating x^wpr/tj green, have made many needless conjectures as 

 to some other bird being here alluded to ; cf Groshans, p. 5 ; Buchholz, 

 pp. 123-125. On the word x^^PI^^ see also G. E. Marindin and 

 W. W. Fowler, Class. Rev. 1890, pp. 50, 231, and in particular Steph. 



