l6 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AirOKE+AAOI [continued). 



former thinks it possibly identical with alyodqXas. According to Scaliger 

 p. 2^1, alyoKe(l)a\os = alyu)\ios. In both passages cited above alyoKe(f)a\os 

 is mentioned along with yXav^, and the name suggests a Horned Owl 

 (sic Scaliger, Lidd. and Sc, &c.). For other suggestions, see Newton, 

 Diet, of Birds, p. 365, s. v. Godwit. 



AlTvniO'Z. A Vulture. 



Etymology very doubtful. The analogy of Lammergeier suggests a 

 compound of ai'c or oV? (Curt.) and yv>\r, but the word is probably much 

 more primitive and ancient. I suspect that most of the remarkably 

 numerous bird-names beginning with al- (many of which are peculiarly 

 difficult to identify, a circumstance suggesting their generic rather than 

 specific character), contain an element akin to avis, Sk. vis (v. aeros), 

 and in this case that yv^ is the shortened or derived form. The dialectic 

 form aly'iTTo^ is interesting in this connexion. 



Hom. frequent, with ep. d'yKu\o;^eiXr/r, -^ap.-<\ru>vv^. Not merely a car- 

 rion-eater (as in Hes. Sc. 405-412), but attacks live birds (II. xvii. 460, 

 Od. XX. 322, cf. Soph. Aj. 169 .... neyap alyviriov ino^ela-avTfs). Arist. 

 H. A. IX. I, 609b ixa)(€Tai aera' iroXefxioi alaiiXoovi. A portent of nlyvtriol 

 in chase of IprjKes in the Persian war, Herod, iii. 76 ; cf Baehr's note. 

 Is feared by rpwyXtTfj?, Phile 692. Sometimes distinguished from yvyj/, 

 Ael. ii. 46 fV ntdopico yi'Trcoi" fieri Kai deTcoi', eivai Koi appevas, K(u ti)v ^poau 

 Trf(f>vKfi'ai fxeXavas (cf. Phil. De An. pr. 127): Nic. Ther. 406 nlyvn-Lol yvnh 

 re. Pallad. Alex, xx, in Gk. Anthol. iii. p. 119 koI top fxev Titvov Kara 

 ■y^y 8110 yvnes edovaiv, r]pas 8e ^wi'Tas reacrapes alyvnioi, Cf. Lob. Path. i. 

 p. 87. 



The metamorphosis of Aegypius and Neophron into alyvmoi' xpouv Se 

 Kol /[ieye^os ov^ opoioi, dWa eXdrratv opvis alyvmos eyevero 'Neocppmv, Boios 

 ap. Anton. Lib. Met. v ; the smaller species here alluded to is the 

 White or Egyptian Vulture, the NeopJiroti perctioptems of modern 

 authors : vide s. vv. yu^l') irepKkOTTTepos. 



The (piXoa-Topyia of alyvTTids, as also of (fiijvrj, celebrated in Od. xvi. 216, 

 Aesch. Ag. 49, 0pp. Hal. i. 723, &c., is connected with the Egyptian 

 association of the Vulture with . the goddess of Maternity (cf. Horap. 

 i. II). 



alyvmos is apparently the poetic name, applied to the various species 

 which frequent the battle-field, and on the other hand applied to an 

 Eagle in such passages as II. xvii. 460. That the word is an old and 

 antiquated one seems to be meant bySuidas : alyvmov' ovtcos ol nuXmot, 

 dXA' ov yvTvn. Cf Bekk. An. 354. 28, Rutherford, New Phryn. p. 19. 



ArrJi'AIOI. Also aiywXio's, and airoSXios (Bk., Ar. vi. 6. 3). An Owl. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b, a nocturnal rapacious bird, mentioned with 



Aed? and (TKc»\\r, and resembling the former (in size) : drjpfvei ras kIttos. 



