KOPYAAAOI— KOPftNH 97 



KOPYAAAOI {continued). 

 with the statement that the Greeks probably transferred the legend to the 

 lark ; vide s.v. cttoij/. The legend, which probably includes a solar myth, 

 is very obscure. Connected with it is probably the epithet eVirv/i/3iStni 

 Kopv8aX\i8es, Theocr. vii. 27, but the line in Babrius Ixxii. 20 KopvSaWoa 

 ovf Tticfiois irai^tav is spurious and unreliable (W. G. R.). The ko/jvSoj 

 and (TToyj/' (both crested birds) are frequently confused : the very word 

 Alauda is possibly an Eastern word for the Hoopoe, Arab, al hudhiid. 

 Cf. Plin. xi, 37 galerita appellata quondam, postea gallico (?) vocabulo 

 alauda. 



Associated with the name Philoclees, Ar. Av. 1295. 



The superficial resemblance between KopvdaXos and the name of 

 'Aprefits KopvdaXia (Athen. iv. 139) may help to explain^Apre/^is- 'AKoXavdis 

 and the other similar epithets in Ar. Av. 870-877. 



A fabled metamorphosis, Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. 7, where Hippo- 

 dameia is transformed into a lark, 6Vi eKopvaaero npos tus Lmvovs. 



Fables. — Knpv8a\os els Trayrjv aXovs, Aes. 209 (c. 55, F. 228). KopvSciXos 

 Koi yfapyos, lb. 2IO (F. 379, C. 42I, B. 88). 



KOPY0i2'N, also KopucOeus' aXfKrpvwv, Hesych. Very probably identical 

 with KopuSdjc, s. v. KopuSaXos. 



KOPYAAin'N' opvidos el8os, Hesych. Vide s. v. KoXXupiwi/. 



K0Pi2''NH. The Crow, Corvtis corone, L., including also the Hooded 

 Crow, C. comix, L. Mod. Gk. Kopmva (Erh.), Kovpovva (v. d. M.). 

 Sometimes the Rook, which only appears in Greece during the 

 winter, and appears to have received no special name: vide s.v. 

 CTTTepp-oXoyos. On the confusion in Latin between corfiix, corvtis, 

 &c., v. Wedgwood, Tr. Philol. Soc, 1854, p. 107; also W. W. 

 Fowler, ' A Year with the Birds,' c. vii. Dim. Kopwi'iSeus, Cratin. 

 TlvX. 10. 



First in Hes. Op. 747 M"? toi ecpe^ofxei/q Kpon^i] XaKtpv^a Kopudvq : cf. Ar. 

 Av. 609 ; ApoU. Rhod. iii. 928 ; Arat. 950, 



Described as frequenting cities, Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 617 b, not a migrant, 

 ib. (cf. Fab. Aes. 415). No bigger in Egypt than in Greece, ib. viii. 28, 

 606 ; alimentary canal as in the Raven, ib. ii. 17, 504 ; frequent the sea- 

 shore, to feed on jettisoned carcases, being omnivorous, ib. viii. 3, 593 b ; 

 Archil. 44, ap. Athen. 594 (xvKr] neTpnirj ttoXXqs j^oaKovan Kopai'as {? rooks). 



Breeding habits. — Arist. De Gen. iv. 6, 774b riKTovaiv (jt(Xi] kui rvcpXd. 

 H. A. VI, 8, 564 fTTMa^ovcri 8e al 6i]Xfiai povcu, koI 8iaT(Xoiaiu in alrodv 

 oucrai 8ui ■navros' Tpe(j,oviTi 8' aircis ol uppeves Kop.'.^o:Tes rr^v Tpo(f)i]i' avrai^ 

 Kai (JiTiCoi'Tes ; ib. 6, 563 b « tti Tivn xi^'^^ov eTrt/neXeiTor kui yap i"i8t] nfro- 

 fiivav aiTL^ii TTapaTTfTop.ivrj. On their monogamous habits, mutual affec- 



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