90 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



K0A0I02 {continued). 



(Tijfxf'iov aiixfiov K.a\ a4)opuis flalv, Arist. fr. 240, 1 522. A sign of rain, 

 (f)aivofX€i/oi dye\rj3a Koi lpr]K€(T(7iv ofioiov \ cf)dey^iiiJ.(voi, Arat. Ph. 965 j cf. ib. 

 970. KOpa^ Se av Kopoovt] (cat Kokows deiXrjs u\lrias fl (f)deyyoiVTO yfiyLdvns 

 f'afcrdai rivn €Tnhrjp.'iav 8i8dcrKovai' KoXotoi 8e UpaKi^ovTts, kol nerofifvoi m] 

 fjL(v avcDTepw TTr] 8e KaraiTepa), Kpvp.iw K.a\ ieruv 8r]\ovai, Arist. ap. Ael. Vll. 7 ! 

 cf. Theophr. De Sign. vi. i ; Arat. 1023, 1026 ; Ovid, Amor. ii. 6, 34 

 pluviae graculus auctor aquae ; Lucret. v. 1082. 



In augury, frequent. Ar. Av. 50 )((o koXoios ovroal aVw Kexrjvev : cf. 

 W. H. Thompson's note on Plat. Phaed. 249 D. 



How the Jackdaws, destroying the grasshoppers' eggs, are cherished 

 by the Thessalians, Illyrians, and Lemnians, Ael. iii. 12, PHn. xi. 29. 

 How the Veneti bribe the Jackdaws to spare their crops, and how 

 the Daws respect the compact, Ael. xvii. 16, Antig. Hist. Mir. 173 (189), 

 Arist. De Mirab. ii. 9, 841 b. On the construction of scare-crows, cf. 

 Geopon. xiv. 25. 



.Story of a Jackdaw enamoured of a certain youth, Ael. i. 6, xii. ^y. 

 The Jackdaw in medicine, Plin. xxix. (6) 36, xxx. (11) 30, &c. Uses 

 laurel as a remedy, Plin. viii. 27. 



Fables. — The Daws and the Husbandman, Babr. xxxiii. The Daw 

 in borrowed plumes, ib. Ixxii : also koXoios koi yXav^, in Fab. Aes. ed. 

 Halm, 200 ; Phaedr. i. 3 ; cf. Luc. Apol. 4 koXows aXXoTpUns Trrepuls 

 dyiiXXerai : Hor. Ep. i. 3. 19, 20 moveat cornicula risum, Furtivis nudata 

 coloribus. See also Aes. Fab. 201, 202, 398. 



Proverb. — koXoios napci koXoiov ICdvei, Arist. Rhet. i. II, 1371b; cf. 

 Nic. Eth. viii. 2, 1 155, &.c. KaK<ov navapia-re koXcicov, Lucian, Fugit. 30 

 (3) 382). Of chatterers, noXXol yap pVfi ar(p€ KaraKpa^ovai KoXoioi, Ar. 

 Eq. 1020. 



KOAOIO'Z, p. The Little Cormorant. Phalacrocorax pyg7naeus, 

 Bonap.; vide s. v. KaTappdKTT]s. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 24, 617 b eWt hi Ka\ aXXo yevos KoXoicov TTspt T^jv AvSiav 

 Kni ^pvyidv, o areyavoTTOVv ecrrlp. Is friendly with Xdpos (6 koX. koXows), 

 Ael. V. 48. 



Sundevall ingeniously suggests the above interpretation, the large or 

 Common Cormorant, ' corvo marino,' being known as Kopa^ (Arist. 

 H. A. viii. 3, 593 b). Ar. Ach. 875 (883) vaaa-us, koXoiovs, aVrayas, (f)aXa- 

 pi8as, &.C., is quoted by Athen. ix. 395 E as a list of water-birds. Cf. s. v. 

 Kopoji'r] 1^ 0aXd(T(no9. 

 KOAOr<t>PYE' Tavaypaios aXiKTpvi>v, Hcsych. 



KOAOKTPYJi'N. In Hesych., supposed to be based on an ancient 



error in MS. Ravenn. of Ar. Ran. 935, for KoX^KTpvova. 

 KOAYMBI'I, s. KoXvp^os (Ar. Ach.), KoXvfi^ds (Athen. 395 e, Anton. Lib.). 

 A water-bird ; especially a Grebe. 



