KOAOIOI— KOPAE 9 1 



KOAYMBII {continued). 



Ar. Av. 304, Ach. 875, brought to market from Boeotia. Mentioned 

 among the water-birds in Arist. H. A. i. I, 487, viii. 3, 593b; Alex. 

 Mynd. in Athen. ix. 395 d 17 \iiKpa KoXvfi^ls navrtov e\a)(i(rTr] rav ivvbpav, 

 pvTTcpofiiXaiva ti)v xpotav Kn\ to pvyxos o^v e^ft; (JKeTTTOP re (lect. dub.) ra 

 opparn, ra de noXXa KaradvfTai. Dion. Dc Avib. ii. 12 To'is KoXvp^ois earlu 

 del TO vrj^ecrdai (piXov, koi ov8' av vnvov X''^"' h '''po(prjS enl ti]v yr]v iXdouv, 

 K.T.X. : ib. iii. 24, capture of KoXvp^ls at night, with net and lantern. 

 The above passage from Alex. Mynd., so far as it is intelligible, is 

 a good description of the Little Grebe or Dabchick, Podiccps i/iinor, L., 

 which is a common resident in Greece (Mod. Gk. fdovrrjKTcipa). In 

 Arist. De Part. iv. 12 we find a minute account of the Grebe's foot, but 

 without a name. 



According to Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. ix, one of the Emathides, 

 daughters of Pierus, was metamorphosed into the bird KoXvplias. 



KO'MBA* Kopoivrj, TlnXvppfjviot., HeS}xh. 



KONTI'AOX- eiBos opvtov, fj oprv^, Hesych. It is possible that the word 

 may be connected with kovtos, and that it may relate to the game 

 of opTvyoKonia, or quail-tapping. 



KOPAKI'AI, Also KopaKiros (synonymous according to Hesych.). 

 A Chough. Pyrrhocorax alpmus, the Alpine Chough, and Frcgilus 

 graculus, the Cornish Chough ; both found in Greece, the latter 

 more rarely. Mod. Gk. KaXiaKov8a in Attica, KnpcovoTTovXi in 

 Laconia (Heldr.). 



Arist. H. A. ix. 24, 617 b. A sort of koXows' oaov Kopdovr], ^oiviko- 

 pvyxos. Hesych. 6 peXas KoXotoV, Kul KopaKiPos opoloii, 



KO'PAE, a. The Raven. Corvus corax, L. Cf. Sk. kar-dvas, L. cor-vus, 

 Sw. kra-ka, O. N. hr'd-kr, A. S. hro-c, Eng. croiv, rook, O. N. hra-fn, 

 Eng. raven : the same root in Kpa(^a, crcpure, rauais, O. H. G. 

 hnio/an, Ger. rufen, Eng. croak. Mod. Gk. Kopa^, KopaKas, Kup- 

 Kopa^ (Erh.). Dim. KopaKii/os, Ar. Eq. 1053 5 KopaKio-Kos, Gloss. 



Not in Homer. Poet., frequent, with the idea of ravenous, carrion- 

 feeding, e.g. Aesch. Suppl. 751, Ag. 1473 ; Gk. Anthol. (Jac.) iv. 179 

 ayKiipnt peya Belnpov d/ierpo/3u)if KOyja/cttrcri. Hence Prov. et? KopaKas, Ar. 

 Vesp. 51, 852, Nub. 123, 133, 789, Pax 500, 1221, Thesmoph. 1226, &c., 

 Arist. fr. 454, 1552 b, Plut. ix. 415, Lucian, Alex. 46 (2, 552) ; frequent 

 also in the comic fragments. See also the long note of Photius ; cf. also 

 Antisthenes ap. D. L. vi. 1,4 KpehTov (Xeye Kadd (f)i]iTiv 'Ekiitcov iv to'is 

 Xpeiais, ils KopnKas fj els KoXaKas eKirecre'iv' 01 pev yap vtKpovs, ol be ^avTns 

 iaOlovaiv : cf. Pallad. 32, Gk. Anthol. iii. 121 p Kai X povov KopaKas 



