EN0YZKOI — EnO* 



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EnO* {coutinucd). 



The cry represented, iiT07ro7roTroTrononoTro7ro7ro7, Ar. Av. 227, &C. Vv. 

 237, 243, 260 no Tiu &.C., though incorporated in the same speech, are 

 evidently from the nightingale and other birds behind the scenes : 

 KiKKal^av, V. 261, is the owl's hoot. 



Nest. — Arist. H. A. vi. i, 559 a fiovos ol Troielrai vcottuiv to>v Kad' eavTu 

 vfOTrevoi/Tap, dW elvdvoufpos els ra areXex'] ff toi? koIXois avTosv TiKrei, 

 ovbev (TVfxfpopovfXfpns. lb. ix. 1 5, 6l6b VfOTTiav Troietrat (< r^j dvdpconivrjs 

 KOTTpov. According to Hel4reich (p. 38) the Hoopoe is a spring and 

 autumn migrant through Greece, but does not now breed there : it 

 however seems to breed in Macedonia and perhaps in Epirus (Kriiperj. 

 The story of the nest eV Konpov civdpcoTrivrjs (also in Ael. H. A. iii. 26) 

 arises (i) from the Hoopoe's habit of seeking its insect food among 

 dung (avis obscoeno pastu, Plin. H. N. x. 29 ; cf. Fr. coq puant, Germ. 

 Kothhahn, Stinkhahn, Mistvogel, &c.), and (2) from the nest having 

 an evil smell from the accumulation within of excrement, and perhaps 

 also from a peculiar secretion of the birds (see for scientific references, 

 Aub. and Wimm. i. p. 91). 



Myth and Legend. — The Tereus-myth (see also s. v. aTjSwc, dXiaeros, 

 XeXiScoi') Aesch. fr. 297, in Arist. H. A. ix. 49 B, 633 a (more probably 

 from the lost Sophoclean tragedy of Tereus, cf. Schol. Ar. Av. 284, 

 Welcker, Gr. Trag. i. 3S4) to^tov 5' enoTrrrjv enona twv ainov KaKcov | 

 TreTTOtKtXcoKf KdnodrjXaKra^ e;(6t | dpaavv nerpalov opviv fv navTevxia' \ os rjpi 

 fxev (f)avevTi diandWei irTcpov \ KipKov Xendpyov' k. t. X. Cf. Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 15, 617 a, and 49 B, 633 a ti)v ISeav ^eraiSdXXet tov depovs Kcii tov 

 Xeip-Sivo^, Plin. X. (30) 44. With the phrase fnoTTTrju tu>v avrov KaKo^v, cf. 

 Plat. Phaedo p. 86 A (fiaal 8ia Xvnrjv adeip : also Ach. Tat. v. 5 6 Trjpevs 

 oppii yivfTai' Koi Trjpovai en tov nddovs rrjv fiKova. In the use of the 

 word eTTOTTTrjs, we have not merely a fanciful derivation of eVox//-, but also 

 an allusion to the mysteries. 



In this very obscure story we have frequent indications of confusion 

 between Hoopoe and Cuckoo, and the 'metamorphosis' is in part 

 connected with the resemblance between the Cuckoo and the Hawk ; 

 cf Arist. vi. 7, Theophr. H. PI. ii. 6, Geopon. xv. i, 22, Plin. H. N. 

 X. 8, II. See also Lenz, Zool. d. Gr. u. R. p. 318. For the relations 

 between Hoopoe and Cuckoo, der Kuckuk und sein Kiister, v. Grimm, 

 D. M. p. 646, Grohmann, Aberglaube aus Bohmen, Leipzig, 1864, 

 p. 68, &c. On the metamorphosis of the Cuckoo into a Hawk in 

 English and German Folk-lore, see Swainson, Provincial Names of 

 British Birds, p. 113. 



How the Hoopoe first appeared at Tereus' tomb in Megara, Paus. 

 i. 41, 9. The Tereus-myth also in Aesch. Suppl. 60, ApoUod. iii. 14, 

 Ach. Tat. V. 5, Ovid, Metam. vi, &c. 



