AAKYiiN— ANOnAIA 33 



ANAfKHI {continued). 



Onka, which is said to be identical with Simurgh, the magical 

 bird of the Persians, and which is believed further to come into 

 relation with Athene "Oy/ca; cf. Von Hammer-Purgstall, Wien. 

 Jahrb. d. Lit. xcvii. 126, Creuzer, Symb. iv. 397, Boch. Hieroz. 

 ii. 812, 852. Vide s. v. okkos. 



'AN0OZ. An unknow^n small bird. The name does not occur in 

 Mod. Gk., and like so many of the bird-names mentioned in a 

 non-scientific or fabulous sense, is probably an exotic. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opri? o-Ka)Xr;Ko0uyo?, (iey(6os oaov cnri(n. 

 ix. I, 609 b iTTTTW TToXe/xios' f^eXiivvfi yap 6 Innos in ttjs vofxrjs, noav yap 

 vep.eTai 6 avOos. incipyep.os S' earl Koi ovk o^vwTToy' fxifxi'iTcn yap rod imrov 

 TTjv (jiwvrju, Ka\ (pol^el emnfTOfxevos koi e^eXavvei, orav Se Xa/3.'/j KTUvti ainov. 

 oiKel S' 6 tivdos napa -noTafibv Koi eXt), ;^poaj' 8' €;^ei Kokrjv koX fii^ioTos iari. 

 ix. I, 610 and 12, 615 hostile to aKavdis and alyi6oi' alyidov Ka\ apdov aipLa 

 ov (Tvpp.iyvvTai akXrjXois : cf. Plin. X. 74 (95). With the above fabulous 

 account, cf. Ael. H. A. v. 48, vi. 19 Idid^a Sc rais pifju^a-fo-t Tcbv ToiovTwu 

 o,Tt I'ivdos KaXovfxevos . . . Ka.\ 6 p.iv avdos vnoKplvirai ■)(p€p.fTi(Tp.a innov. 

 Also Plin. X. (47) 52 ; see also Boios ap. Anton. Lib, c. 7, where 

 Anthus is a son of Autonous and Hippodameia, killed by his father's 

 horses, and metamorphosed into the bird aV^oi-. In Phile 705 it is the 

 fish dv6ias that is said to be hostile to the horse. 



iVo^t\ — As indicative of the mythical, fabulous, and probably exotic 

 element in the above, compare the accounts of avQos and dKai/Gis 

 (? aK-avd-ls), the former aKaiXrjKoffxiyo^, ev^iuros, xpoav KaXoi, nrniD 

 TToXepios : the latter dKav6o(j)dyos, KaKojiios, KnKoxpoos, ofco iroXeptos, ScC.l 

 aKuvdls and a"yi(v)Oos are perhaps two corruptions of the same word. 

 Though the bird cannot be identified, and though it is more than 

 doubtful whether it was ever known to the Greeks, yet Sundevall's 

 identification of avdoi as the Yellow Wagtail, Motacilla flava, L., 

 deserves to be recorded. This hypothetical identification is based 

 on the brilliant colour (which according to v. d. Miihle is more brilliant 

 in Greece even than in N. Europe) and on the localities frequented. 

 The Yellow Wagtail frequently consorts with the cattle at pasture, 

 feeding on flies ; it may indeed have become associated with the above 

 fable, the origin of which, however, is doubtless more deep-seated and 

 obscure. 



'ANOnAfA. A bird associated with Athene, possibly the Night-Heron. 



Od. i. 320 rt7re/3r; yXavKa^nn 'Adi]vr], opvis 8' 6>S dvoira7a ^LfTTTaro. For 

 various explanations and Scholia, see Steph. Thes. (ed. 1821), Lidd. 

 and Sc, &c. According to Rumpf, De aedibus Homericis, ii. p. 32, 

 Giessen, 1857, Nctolicka, Naturh. aus Horn. p. li, Buchholz, Hom. 



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