58 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



"EPO*!'" opvis TToios, Hesych. Probably for f7ro\f/, or else yiipo-^. 



'EPYOPO'nOYI. In Ar. Av. 303, usually translated Redshank, which 

 bird, To/amis calidris, L., is common in Greece in winter. 

 Used as an epithet of 7r«'X«a, Arist. H. A. v. 13, 544 b. 



'EPQrA'l' f'pcoSto'y, Hesych. A very doubtful word. 



'EPnAIO'Z (pwSio'f, Hippon. 59, ap. Etym. M. Also e'ScoXtdy, Hesych.) 



A Heron, L. ardea; etym. dub. 



Various species are mentioned : 6 TreXXoj, the common Heron, Ardea 

 cinerea, L. ; 6 Xev/cor, the Egret, A. alba and A. gazetta\ 6 aa-repias 

 Kn\., A. {Botaurus) stellaris, L., the Bittern; Arist. H. A. ix. i, 609b ; 

 cf. Dion. De Avib. ii. 8 eanv avrav yeprj fivpia' ol p.ev yap (Bpaxels r' fieri 

 Koi XevKoi, aXXoi Se Troi/ct'Xot Koi pei^ovfS, pea 01 8' erepoi, Kai Tols pev ovk 

 ecTTiv fTtl Trjs K€(f)nXris nXoKapos, (iXkois 5' wanep Tis ^6aTpv)(oi anrjaprjTai, 

 Plin. X. 60 (79). 



The above identifications of neWos and darepias (q. v.) are doubtful: 

 the same words occur in relation to one another as proper names in 

 Apoll. Rh. i. 176; cf. Pott in Lazarus and Steinthal's Zeitschrift, xiv. 

 p. 43- 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b nepl ras Xipvas kciI tovs Trorapoiis ^lorevei. 

 Ael. H. N. V, 35, X. 5 oaTpea iadUiv beivos i(TTi (?) ; cf. Pint. Sol. Anim. x. 

 (Mor. 967 D). Its flight described, Arist. De Inc. 10, 710 a, fr. 241, 

 1522 a. 



Mentioned also Ar. Av. 886, 1 142. With ep. paKpoKaprrvXavxfvfs, 

 Epich. 49, ap. Athen. ix. 398 D. 



Myth and Legend. — Sent by Athene, to Odysseus and Diomede, 

 as a favourable augury, II. x. 274. Here from the nocturnal appearance 

 of the bird and its loud cry, Netolicka (Naturh. a. Homer p. 10) and 

 others suggest the Night-Heron, Ardea Nycticorax, L., which is 

 abundant in the Troad ; cf. Hippon. 1. c. Kvecpaloi eXduiv pwSicS /carryu- 

 Xiadrjv. In II. X. 275 there is an alternative reading TreXXov 'AdrjvatT] 

 (Zopyrus, De Mileto Cond. iv (Schol. Venet.), cf. Groshans, Prodr. Faun, 

 pp. 15, 16, Buchholz p. 119; for a discussion of important Scholia on 

 this passage, and for notes on epwdws in general, see J. G. Schneider, 

 in Arist. vol. iv. pp. 45-47; vide s. v. ireXXos). See also s. v. dkoiraia. 



The Heron as a symbol of Athene on coins of Ambracia and Corinth 

 (Imh.-Bl. and K. p. 38, pi. vi). Said also to be sacred to Aphrodite, 

 Etym. M. A bird of good omen, Ael. x. 37, Plut. Mor. 405 D, especially 

 the White Heron, Plin. xi. 37. A weather-prophet, Arat. Phaen. 913, 

 972, Athen. viii. 332 E (where Casaub. reads eXcopios), Ael.vii.7, Theophr. 

 De Sign. i. 18, ii. 28, Virg. Georg. i. 363, Lucan, v. 553, Cic. Div. i. 8, 

 Callim. s. V. 8uirTT]s ; hence beloved of men, Dion. De Avib. ii. 8. 



