92 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOPAH {continued). 



KokaKdiv SiopiCd, I XoiTTov T avTo Kopa^ ^a>fioX6)(os re m'lXa^. With epithet 

 KvaWnrrepos, Eur. Andr. 862. 



Anatomical particulars. — Arist. De Part. iv. I, 626b to puy;(os e^ei 

 l<T)(ypov KCLi, aKKrjpov, Toii aTopd)(ov to npos tijv koiKuii' ti'lpov fvpv koi nXaTv, 

 XoXrjv irpos Toii ivTepois. 



Breeding. — Arist. De Gen. iii. 6, 756 b 77 pev o;^fia oXiya/ci? oparat, 17 8e 

 To'is pvyxeai npos aWrjXa Koiva>via TroXXciKij, eicrl yap TLves oi Xeyovcri kcitu 

 TO aropa piyvvaOai tovs KopaKas, cf, Plin. x. (12) 15 ; Dion. De Avib. i. 

 9 ov piyvvvTM TTpiv Tiva Tois drjXeiais (odi)v axrirep yafifjXiov -rrepiKpa^ai. Pair 

 for life, Athen. ix. 506. Lays four to five eggs, Arist. H. A. ix. 31, 618 b. 

 Incubates twenty days and expels the fledglings, ib. vi. 6, 563 b. ; cf PJin. 



1. C. Ael. iii. 43 6 Kopa^ 6 r'j8r] yepcov OTiiv prj 8vvr]T(U rpecpdv Tovs veoTTOis, 

 eavTov avTo7s rrpordvei Tpocprjp, | ol Se iadiovai tuv nuTepa ; cf. Phlle, De 

 Anim. Pr. vi. 



Habits. — Mentioned among to. Kara rroXeis eladoTa fidXicrra Cn^, Arist. 

 H. A. ix. 23, 617 b. Is a mimic, Ael. ii. 51. ^ovXeTni 6e tmv op^pav 

 jxipeiadai Tas aTayovas, ib. vi. 19. ov peTa(BdXX€i tovs tottovs ov8e (/)Q)Xeuei, 

 Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 617 b. How the Ravens pick out sheeps' eyes, Ar. 

 Av. 582. 



Myth and Legend. — How there are never more than two Ravens 

 Trept Tqv KaKovp€vr]v Kotttov in Egypt, Ael. vii. 18 ; at Krannon in 

 Thessaly, Arist. De Mirab. 126, 842 b, PHn. x. (12) 15 ; in Pedasia in 

 Caria, Arist. De Mirab. 137, 844 b. In this last instance they inhabit 

 the temple, and one has a white throat. Perhaps the ndpaKis here were 

 priests or priestesses, cf. ireXeia. See also Arist. H. A. ix. 31. 



On the nopaKes or Kopmia, as a grade in the Mithraic hierarchy, cf. 

 Porphyr. De Abst. iv. 16, Hieronym. ad Laet. 7, Diodor. i. 62, Inscr. 

 Griiter. p. 1087. 4, &c. ; cf Montfaucon, ii. p. 377, Creuzer's Symbolik i. 

 p. 253, Miinter ad Jul. Firmic. v. p. 20, &c. Creuzer (i. p. 431) correlates 

 the Indian myth of Brahma appearing in one of his incarnations as 

 a Raven, and compares in turn this latter story (ii. p. 655) with that 

 in Herod, iv. 15. The Raven of Odin is, perhaps, also cognate. 



The Raven as a messenger of Apollo. Hesiod, fr. 125 (142) ap. 

 Schol. Pind. P. 48 (28) tw p.iu ap ayyeXos rjX6e Kopa^ Up?]S dno BaiTos | 

 Uvdo) fS Tjyaderjv koi p ecppncrep 'ipy diSrjXa \ ^oijBco aKepa-f-Ki'ipr] ; cf. Ael. 

 i. 47 'AiroXXavos Gepdnwv, with which cf famulum in Cat. Ixvi. 57, 

 and Ellis's note ; see also Bianor iv in Gk. Anthol. ii. 142 ^oi^ov Xdrpis: 

 Ael. i. 47, 48, vii. 18, Porph. De Abst. iii. 5, Stat. Silv. ii. 4 Phoebeius 

 ales, &c. 



Hence with the laurel-emblem, on coins of Delphi. Hence also 

 Stat. Theb. iii. 506 comes obscurus tripodum ; Petron. Sat. c. 122 

 delphicus ales. 



