24 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AAEKTPYflN (coulinued). 



The Egyptian breed of Moi/oo-ipoi, e| hv ol jxaxi^oi aXeKrpvoves yewo^iiTai, 

 and on their exemplary patience as sitters, Geopon. xiv. 7. 30. 

 A silent breed at Nibas, near Thessalonica, Ael. xv. 20. 

 On the breeds of fowls, galli tanagrici, medici, chalcidici, &c., see 

 also Varro, De R. R. iii. 9. 3 ; Colum. viii. 27 and 31 ; Plin. x. (21) 24, 



(56) 11- 



Chrysipp. ap. Athen. ix. 373 A Knddnep Tivis ras Xcvkcis opvidas tcov 

 fi(\aivS)V rjSlovi tlvai fxaWov. 



The fatted fowls of the Delians, and Roman laws and practices 

 regarding the same; Plin. x. 50, cf. Columella viii. 2, Varro iii. 9, Cic. 

 Academ. iv. 



The large fowls of Ctesias, fr. 57. 3, Ael. xvi. 2, were Impeyan 

 Pheasants ; cf. Cuvier in Grandsaigne's Pliny, vii. p. 409, and Yule's 

 Marco Polo, i. p. 242. 



Myth and Legend. — Pythag. ap. Iambi. Adhort. xxi. 17 dXeKrpvova rptcpe 

 fjLev, pi] dve Se' pr'jvrj yap Koi rjXlco KndiepcoTcn. Cf. Iambi. V. Pyth. xxviii. 

 147, 150, &c. 



A white Cock sacred to the Moon, Pythag. ap. Diog. L. viii. 8. 19, 

 Iambi. V. Pyth. xviii. 84 : to the Sun, Suid. s. v. Uvdayopa to. avp^oXa. 



A white or yellow Cock sacrificed to Anubis, Plut. de Is. Ix. 



The Cock sacred to Athene, Pans. vi. 26. To Hermes, Lucian, 

 Gallus (cf. Montfaucon, i. pi. Ixviii, Ixxi, Graev. Thes. A. R. v. 718 A, 

 &C.) ; cf. Plut. Conv. Disp. iii. 6. p. 666 6 8e opBpos npbs tijp epydvrjv 

 'Adt]vdv Kai tov dyopaiov 'Epprjv ennvloTrjai. To Latona, Ael. iv. 29. 

 Sacrificed to Mars, Plut. Inst. Lacon. (Mor. 238 F.). Sacred to 

 Demeter, and therefore not eaten at Eleusis, nor by the initiates of 

 Mithra; Porphyr. De Abst. iv. 16. Sacrificed to Nephthys and Osiris 

 on the 13th of Boedromion, and to Hercules and Thios on the 29th of 

 Munychion, C. I. G. 523, Marm. Oxon. ii. 21, pp. 15, 17. 



Dedicated to Aesculapius, Plat. Phaed. 118. See also Artemid. v. 9 

 fjv^uro TLS TO) 'A(rKXr;7rt6), el 8ia tov erovs avocros eXdoi, dvaeiv avTa dXeic- 

 Tpvova: also Porphyr. Vit. Pythag. 36, Herondas, Ascl. iv. 12. On the 

 fowl in medicine, Nic. Ther. 557, Cels, v. 27, Diosc. Ther. 19 and 27, 

 Galen and Pliny passim. 



Sacrificed to the Household gods, Juv. xiii. 233 Laribus cristam 

 promittere galli ; cf. ibid. xii. 96. 



The Cuthic deity Nergal (2 Kings, xvii. 30) is said to have been 

 represented as a Cock : for which reason Rabbinical writers, according 

 to Gesenius, connect the name with PlJJ^n, thamegol, a Cock, which 

 word old-fashioned etymologists found hid in Tanagra. 



An image dedicated to the Twin Brethren, Callim. xxiv, in Gk. 

 Anthol. i. p. 218; cf. Pausan. vi. 26. 



How fowls were kept in the temples of Hercules and Hebe, eV r?^ 



