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AHOYI {continued). 



takes nTTovs to be the Swift: Aubert and Wimmer (p. in) take it 

 to be the House Martin (Hirundo urbica L.). The name 7rerpn;^eXi8oi/i 

 appHes in Mod. Gk. both to //. riipcstris and to the Swift (Heldreich). 



"APAKOI. An Euuscan word for a Hawk. "ipaKOi- h'pa^, Tvpprjvol, 

 Hesych. Said to be a Lydian word, Jablonsk. in Stcph. Thes. 



Cf. ^ap/3nf 



"APAMOI. a name for a Heron = ep(x)Bi6i, Hesych. 



'APno'nOYI, s. dpyiTroug. A Macedonian name for the Eagle, Hesych. 

 Perhaj>6 a corruption of alyiiro'^, or perhaps of ap^i(f)os. 



'APHTIA'AEI "OPNIGEI. Fabulous birds, which shot forth their feathers 

 like arrows : doubtless an astronomical emblem. Apoll. Rhod. 

 ii. 1035-1052. Cf. King's Ant. Gems p. 330. 



'APNEYTH'P. [Cf. Lat. iirinator, a diver, Sk, vdri, water (Curt.).] 

 Supposed to mean a diving bird, diver or grebe {Colymbus). 

 Perhaps only a professional diver. Cf. Suttttjs. 

 II. xvi. 742 apviVTr]pi (oncas. See also II. xii. 385, Od. xii. 413. 



"APZI^OI. A Persian word for an Eagle, Hesych. (Pers. karges). Cf. 

 dpyioirous. 



"APOAZOI. An unknown or fabulous bird ; vide s. v. apTrr]. 



"APriH. (Perhaps from rt. of apTT-aC<^, L. rap-io.) An unknown or 

 fabulous bird. 



II. xix. 350 apirrj iiKvIa rawTTTepvyi, "Kiyvipava) (Eustath. ^anv SaXaacTiov, 

 \apco TTo'Sepovv). Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609-610 en 01 ano Tijs daXnrTrjs 

 ^oivres TToXepioi aWrjXoLS, olov ^pevdos Kai Xdpos kul apirrj . . . .Tricfuy^ Kai 

 apnr] Koi IktIvos (fylXoi. ix. 1 8, 617 noXepios 8e rrj apirj] 17 (pa>v^, Kai yap 

 (KeiuT] opoio^ioTos. Ael. H. A. ii. 47 f] 8e opfios apirr] rSiv opvl6a>v vpoa- 

 TTedovcra Toi/s ocpdaXpovs a(papTrd^(i. Cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 4- Pun. 

 x. 95 (74) Dissident harpe et triorches accipiter. Harpe et milvus 

 contra triorchem communibus inimicitiis. The wife and son of Cleinis 

 are metamorphosed into the birds apiri] and apTrnc-os : Boios ap. Anton. 

 Lib. Met. 20. According to Hesych., apnr) is Cretan for Ikt'ivos. 



Places ivy, Kiaaos, in its nest for a charm, Ael. i. 35, Phile 729, 

 Geopon. xv. i. 



The word is poetical. Dionysius (1. c.) refers to the Lammergeier. 

 Some mediaeval commentators (e. g. Gesner) take Harpe and Milvus 

 (Iktivos) to be identical in Arist. and Plin. 11. cC, as does also Tzetzes, 

 Chiliad, v. 413 IktIvos opvis ris eariVj ovivfp KaXovpev dpnrji', (i/jTru^wi/ ra 



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