KirKAOI — KIPKOI 



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KINNYPI'AEI" Tct fjLiKpa opviddpia, Hesych. (Perhaps akin to Kivvpoixai.) 

 KINY'TIAOI- x«paS/jtdy, Hesych. A very doubtful word. 



Kl PII* Xvxvos, opveov, ^ "AScjvis AaKiOvfs, Hesych. AlsO Kippis' fiSos 

 UpaKos. npoias Se XeyeraL irapa Kvnpiois Klppis 6 ' AbavLS, nnpa AaKaicri 



Se, 6 \vxvos, Et. M. Cf. Kvpis, 6"A8a)vis, Hesych. These refer- 

 ences are important in connexion with the solar symbolism 

 underlying the stories of Ciris, KrjpvXos, &c. ; cf. the version of the 

 Ciris-myth, s.v. Kippis {s. Kippis), Dion. De Avib. ii. 14. 



Kl'PKH. A poetic or mystical bird-name ; different from, and hostile 



to, KipKOi. 



Ae]. iv. 5 O'f'p'i'') pfXiacrrjs ovofin, rrpos KipKrjv ix&pos. KipKrj 8e irpos 

 KipKOV, oi Tw yevei p.6vov, aKka kol rrj (fivaei diacpepovra necpuipacrdov. Cf. 

 ib. iv. 58. 



Kl'PKOI. A poetic and mystical name for a Hawk : the sacred 

 Hawk of Apollo ; in the main an astronomical, perhaps solar, 

 emblem. In Mod. Gk. KipKiveCt is said to be a name for the 

 Kestrel (Heldr.), vide s. v. Keyxprjis. 



In Homer, the bird of Apollo, de^ios opvis, ' AnoXXavos ra^vs ayyeXos, 

 Od. XV. 525 ; an emblem of swiftness, i\a<pp6TaTos TrfTfrjvwv, II. xxii. 139, 

 Od. xiii. 87 ; cf. Apoll. Rh. ii. 935, 0pp. Cyn. i. 282 fj KLpKos Tavafjcri 

 Tivacraopfvos Trrepvyeiia-iv : usually as an enemy of the Dove, II. xxii. 

 140 (cf 'ipr]^, xxi. 493), Od. XV. 526, cf Apoll. Rh. i. 1049 rjire KtpKovs I 

 coKUTTcra? ciyeXrjdov aTTorpeaaaxTL ■niXaai : ib. iii. 543) 5^^5 '^* 4^^ > hostile 

 to ■^ap, /C0X0169, and other small birds, II. xvii. 757. Frequent in Aesch., 

 usually, as in Homer, an enemy of the Dove ; Suppl. 223 ia-p-bs ws 

 TreXeiaSwr | t^ecr^f, KipKcov tcov oponrepcov (pojico, Pr. V. 857 fipKot TreXeiwi' 

 oil paKpav XeXetppevni (note in this passage the association with Egyptian 

 *E7ra0os-) ; mentioned in connexion with the Tereus-myth, as metamor- 

 phosing with fTToyp-, fr. 32, ap. Arist. H. A. ix. 49 b eVo;//- ... 6? Tjpi piv 

 ^alvovTi. SioTraXXei urepov \ KipKov Xendpyov : as a portent, pursuing an 

 eagle, rrpos iaxdpav ^oijBov, Pers. 205 ; cf. Suppl. 60 otra to? Tr]peias 

 fitjTidos olKTpds dXoxov, KipKT)XdTov T drjdovos. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620 rpiros tcov lepdKcop [rw KpareL]; ib. ix. I. 609b 

 dXwTTfKi TToXepios, cf Ael. V. 48, Phile, 704, Wotton, De Difif. Anim. 

 vii, 143, &c. In Plin. x. 8 circos occurs as an alternative reading for 

 aegitJuis ; cf. circus as the name of a gem, similis accipitri, Piin. 

 xxxvii. 10. 



Mentioned as hostile to the Dove also in Ael. iii. 46, v. 50 01 8e n-epi- 

 arepai npos aircov ptv KXayyrjv Koi yvnmv dappovai, KipKotv 8e Koi aXiaeVcoi' 

 ovKiTL : to Tpvywv and to Kopwpi], ib. vi. 45 ; to KipKr], ib. iv. 5, 58 ; and 

 to mice, Batrach. 49. How it places chicory (niKpls) in its nest as 

 a charm, Ael. i. 35, Phile, 722, or wild lettuce, aypia OpidaKiprj, Geopon. 



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