2 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AETOI {continued). 



European languages is so striking, that I suspect for it a non-Aryan 

 root. 



An Eagle, the generic word ; see also dKoXeiis, dXideros. dkrap, 

 dpyiOTTous, dp|i(J>os, daTcpias, cupup.e'Suk', I'Pii'OS, iSeut', KUKCias, 

 Xaywliok'os, p.eXameTOS, fxopejjros, kT]TTo4)6i'os, irXaYyoS) TruYapyoS, 

 Xpuo-deros, &c.: v. Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b, ix. 32,618 b, 619 a; on the 

 species of Eagles cf. Cuvier ad Plin. x. 3, ed. Grandsaigne, whose iden- 

 tifications, however, like those of Sundevall (Thierarten des Aristoteles, 

 Stockholm, 1863, also in Swedish, K. Akad. Wetensk. Stockholm, 1862), 

 are in my opinion to be received with caution. Besides the Osprey, 

 Pandion Haliaefus, and the Short-toed Eagle, Circa'etus gallicus, the 

 following true Eagles are regular inhabitants of Greece, A. Chrysaetus, 

 A. heliaca, A. naevia, A. Bonelli, A. pennata, and Haliaehis albicilla. 

 Though occasional passages may be descriptive of the habits of one 

 rather than another of these species, there is no evidence of any of 

 these having been recognized as distinct : such names as dXiaei-oy, \iiknv- 

 nerof and Xayw(^oVos have a mystical or symbolic rather than a de- 

 scriptive or specific meaning. On the confusion of the Eagles with the 

 Vultures, vide infra. Eagles are common in Greece, though (Xen. 

 Venat. v. 24) absent from many of the islands, for want of hills. On 

 the Eagle in classical art and mythology cf O. Keller, Thiere d. cl. 

 Alterthums, pp. 236-276, 430-452. 



Epithets. — Hom. ayK.vkoyi'CKx]'; (cf. Ar. Eq. 197 /3iip<raieToy ayKvkn^(,iKr\i 

 S. -X'/Xr/s"), d'lQav, Sextos, Kapriaros Kcii [okkttos ■nerer]vS>v, fxeXas (cf. Aesch. 

 Ag. 115, Plut. Amat. iv. 9), d^vTaros SepKeadat, reXeioraro? (II. viii. 247), 

 v^nriTrji s. irij/LTTeTrjeis (cf Soph. Oenom. fr. 423, Horap. ii. 56, &c.). Ad 

 0tXTaros- (II. xxiv. 310). Hes. Th. 523 Tavdnrfpos (cf. Find. P. v. 112, 

 II. xxiv. 317, Orphic. Lith. 124). Pind. P. i. 6, v. 48, Isthm. vi apx^s 

 ol<ji>v5>v, 01. xiii. 21 ^aaiXevi ola>vav (cf. Aesch. Ag. 115 ; Ar. Eq. 1087 ; 

 Ael. ix. 2.; Nic. Ther. 448 ; Callim. Hymn. Jov. 68 ; Ovid, Met. iv. 362 ; 

 the Eagle was an Egyptian symbol for the king, according to Horap. 

 ii. 56, and was worshipped as a royal bird by the Thebans, Diod. Sic. 

 i. 87, 9) ; a royal emblem also at Babylon, Philostr. Iniagg. 386 K. 

 Aesch. Pr. V. 1024 Atos ttttjvos Kva>v, 8a(poiv6s aleros : Soph. fr. 766 

 <rKr]TTTo^dficx)v aleros, Kvav Alos (cf. Ar. Av. 5 1 5, Pind. P. i. 6). Aesch. 



Suppl.2I2, Soph. Aj. 1040, Eur. Ion 159, &C.: — Zrjvos opvis, Zrjvos nuros, 



Zr)vos Ki]pv^. Antip. Sid. xcii in Gk. Anth. (Jac.) ii. 33 "Opvi, Ai6s 

 Kpovidao biciKTope. Arat. Phen. 522 Zrjvos iJLtyas ayyeXos. Schol. Pind. 

 I. v. 53 SioVo/xTTo? auTos. See also Porphyr. De Abstin. iii. 5 opvides rois 

 di'dpaiTTois fiVi KTjpvKes aXXot d'XXwj' deoov, Alos p-ep deros, k. r. X. Nonn. 

 Dionys. xxiv. 120 aleros rjye^oveve Si' rjepos avrirvnos Zevs. Ar. Av. 1248 

 (Aesch. fr. Niob.) TTvpcpopoia-if alerols. Bianor in Gk. Anth. ii. 143 rjepo- 

 tipTjS aleros, olavmu povvos e'TTOvpavios, Cf. Eurip. fr. 866 anns fiev dfjp 



