AI0YIA— AKMflN I9 



AKAN0II {continued). 



is in the main mythical : cf. a»'0os. Mod. Gk. uKaBl, the Siskin, is 

 perhaps akin (Bikdlas). 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opj/t? aKav6Q<^ayoi' enl aKav6a>v vefjifTai. lb. 

 ix. I ovcp Koi av6a Kai alyi6(o noXenios [cf. Aiitig. Hist. Mirab. 106 (114), 

 PHn. X. 74 (95)]) '^* 17 KaKojiios Km KaKo^poo?, <pa)pf]V fxevroi Xiyvpav 

 exovcra. Agath. xxv. 5 in Gk. Anthol. iv. p. 13 Xtyvpoj/ ^opjSevaiv aKavOidts. 

 Theocr. 7. 141 : the SchoHa in Theocr. make aKavdls synonymous with 

 aKavdvWis and noiKiXls. Virg. Georg. iii. 338 httoraque halcyonem 

 resonant, et acanthida [a/, acalanthida] dumi ; cf. Serv. in Virg. ahi 

 lusciniam esse volunt, ahi vero carduelem, quae spinis et carduis 

 pascitur. 



In Anton. Lib. Met. vii, the daughter of Autonous and Hippo- 

 damea is cahed 'AKavdls and 'AkuvOvWIs indifferently ; note also that 

 her mother was metamorphosed into Kopv86s. Hesych. and Aelian 

 have also ciKavdos. (Cf. Anton. Lib. 1. c.) Vide s. v. al'ytSos. 



'AKANGYAAI'I (in some ]\ISS. d/car'^aXtV). Probably the Goldfinch, 

 Fri7igil!a carduelis, L. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 to jieyedos oaov Kvmo'koyos. lb. ix. 13, 616 re)(VL- 

 Koi)s 8f Kol 17 Trjs aKavdvXkidos e;^€t veoTTui' TmrXeKTai yap uxrirep afjialpa Xivrj, 

 exovcra Ti)v e'lcrSvcriv fxiKpav I cf. Plin. x. 33 (50). Is hostile to Kopv8aX6s, 

 Ael. iv. 5, Phile, De An. Pr. 683. Mentioned also Eubul. fr. iii. 268, 

 ap. Athen. ii. p. 65, Plut. ii. 537 B, and by Hesych. as arpovdov ytuos. 



The description in Arist. H. A. ix. 13 has suggested to scientific com- 

 mentators (Sundevall, p. 116, &c.) the nest of the Long-tailed or Pendu- 

 line Tits, Aegithaltis caudatus or pendidinus (cf. aiyi^aXos) or Bearded 

 Tit, Calanwphilus biarniicus ; but the neat round nest of the Goldfinch 

 would suit the description well enough. The alternative form aKapdaXli 

 is evidently identical with aKoXavdk, and so supports the identity of the 

 bird with aKavdis, while its identity with noiKtXls, also asserted by the 

 Schol. in Theocr., is strengthened by the statements of hostility to 

 Kopv?iaX6s in the case of both these birds. The latter statement is, of 

 course, fabulous or mystical. In identifying t'lKavBvXXis with the Gold- 

 finch, I only mean that such an identification was probably adopted by 

 Aristotle : what aKav6vXXis, civdos, Sec. originally meant is unknown. 

 See also alYt0<i^oS) akGog. 



'A[K]KAAANirP- uKavdvXXis, napa AaKaaiv, Hesych. [On various read- 

 ings cf. Valkenaer, Adon. p. 278 ; Ahr. Dor. ii. 69.] 



"AKMflN- yevos derod, Hesych. Cf. 0pp. Cvneg. iii. 326, where, though 

 uKfiovfs are cited as ivolves, the description closely resembles that 

 of the mystical eagles in Aesch. Ag. 11 1-120. 



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