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AAKYftN {continued). 



tropic (cf. Ptolemy, ap. Petav. iii. 54, Kal. Jan. : Sol elevari incipit)]. 

 The risings and settings of the Pleiads and of the Dogstar were 

 apparently the chief landmarks of the ancient year, and in this con- 

 nexion the comparison with aXoa-axvr] is also suggestive. I take 

 akitadxvr] to be a corruption, by ' Volksetymologie,' of the Egyptian 

 o-oXex';''} the Dog-star. Cf. Chalcid. in Timaeum Plat. f. cxxiv, ed. 

 Fabr., Cum hanc eandem stellam adrponvvov quidam, Aegyptii vero 

 aroKfxh^ vocant (v. Jablonsk. in Steph. Thes. and cf. Leemans in 

 Horap. i. 3). The common Egyptian name for the Dog-star is Sofhi, 

 and of this we read in Plut. De Isid. p. 375 2co^l AlyvnTia-Ti cn^fxaivei 



Kvi]cn.v rj Tu Kveiv. 



The birds anciently associated with the season of the vernal equinox 

 are, with the exception of the Nightingale, associated with St. Martin 

 in modern times ; viz. the House-martin or Martlet (cf. ^f'^tSco*'), the 

 Harrier (cf. KipKOi), Fr. oiseau St. Martin, and the Kingfisher, Fr. 

 martin-pecheur. It is precisely the same birds, with the addition of 

 the solar Hoopoe and Woodpecker, and with the substitution of 

 nXideTos (q. V.) for KipKos, that figure together in the story of the meta- 

 morphosis of Pandareus ; Boios ap. Anton. Lib. Met. xi. 



In the calendars ascribed to Geminus (?), Columella and Ptolemy {?), 

 the Halcyon days are placed in the end of February or beginning of 

 March. I cannot account for this discrepancy, which is clearly at 

 variance with the older tradition ; unless indeed the phrase had lost its 

 meaning and was simply transferred to the season of the migration 

 of birds. 



See also s.vv. dirjSaji', d\nrop<()upis, KTjpuXog, ktju|. 



Nofe. — On the mystical element in the stories of dXKvwv and az/Scof 

 cf. Lucian, Hale, ovk av exoipev elive'iv ^ejiaiws ovt' ' AXKVopoiv nepi, ovt 

 ' Ar]86vu)v' (cXe'os Be fivdav, olov irnpeSoaav TrnrepfS, toioito khl naicrlv epois, 

 S) opvL dp!ivu>v peXoiBe, TrnpnSuxrui tu>v crciiv vpvuiv trfpi, /cat crov tov evaflSrj 

 Kni (})iXavt)pov epuTd tvoXXukls vpvi\au>, 



"AMAAAOI- TTfpSi^, UoXvppt']vii!i, Hesych. 



'AMnEAl'Z. An unknown bird. Ar. Av. 304. Cf. Poll. vi. 52. 



'AMflEAl'nN. An unknown small bird mentioned together with dcm'jp 

 (q. v.), with epithet /covc^oraroy. Taken as identical with dpneXls : 



dpneXi8es as vvv dpneXionvas KaXovaiP, J. Pollux, vi. 52 ; cf. Lob. 



Prol. p. 49. In Mod. Gk. dpn-eXovpyds is the Black-headed Bunting, 



called also KpaaoTroiXt, pedvarpa. 

 'ANA'FKHI, S. dvdKT]S' opveov ti 'ivdiKw, opuiov y^dpat, Hesych. The 



name is strongly suggestive of the Arabic and Syrian Anka or 



