9^ A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOPiJNH {continued). 



tion and constancy, whence their invocation at weddings, vide Ael. 

 iii. 9 {i7ifra cit.). 



Myth and Legend.— Its proverbial longevity. Hes. in Plut. De Orac. 

 Def. ii. p. 415 C (vvka TOi foiet yivta^ XuKepv^a Kopaivq, j avbpaiv rj^avTOiv : 

 of. Ar. Av. 609, Arat. 1023 iweaveipa Kopdovr] : Opp. Cyn. iii. 117 aUro- 

 fVTCi T( (^vKa TroXv(a)oi (? TroXvKpco^oi) re Kopa>vai. Cf. also Ar. Av. 967 

 noKiai Kopavai : Babr. Fab. 46, 9 Kopavrjv tfvrepav dvanXrjaas, lived two 

 crows' lives ; Automed. ix (Gk. Anthol. ii. 193) jBlov (cooire Kopavrjs : 

 Lucill. xcvii (ib. iii. 49) el fitv ^f,s ravaov i\dcf)ov xpdvov fje Kopa>vr]s : Com. 

 Anon. 4, 680 (Meineke) vnep ras Kopmvas ^e^iaKas, &c. See also Plin. 

 vii. 48, Horat. Car. iii. 17, 16 annosa comix; Martial, x. 67 cornicibus 

 omnibus superstes, &c. ; Lucret. v. 1083, Juv. x. 247, Ovid, Amor. ii. 6, 36. 

 Auson. Id. xviii. 



Is hostile to ydXrj, yXnv^, SpxiKos, npicr^vs, Tviravos, Arist. H. A. ix. 

 I, 609,610: to aKavBvXXis, Ael. iv. 5 : to aero? and KipKos, Ael. xv. 22; 

 friendly to epoBios, Arist. 1. c, Ael. v. 48. The War of the Owls and 

 Crows, Ael. ni. 9? v. 48 eVei 8e »; yXav^ icmv avrj] iroXefJiiov, koi vvKrap 

 fTTi^ouXivd To'ts ao'is riis Kopu>vT]s, T] fie fj.e6' rjfxepav fKeivrjv ravTo 8pa toito, 

 el8v7a exeif tijv oy\nv rqv yXavKa Tr^viKavra dadfvr). Cf. Jataka, p. 270 ; 

 Ind. Antiq., 1882, p. 87; De Gubern. Zool. Myth., &c. Vide 

 s. V. yXau^ for a discussion of the moon-symbolism of the latter bird, 

 and compare the Chinese expression of the Golden Crow and the 

 Jewelled Hare to signify the Sun and Moon. The same legend may 

 account for Athene's supposed enmity to the Crow, cf Ovid, Amor. ii. 

 6, 35 cornix invisa Minervae. 



Uses dpiarepiov as a charm, Ael. i. 35 ; also pdp.vov, Phile, De Am. Pr. 

 725; and nfpi(TT(peuiva tov vtttiou, Geopon. XV. I, 19. 



A weather-prophet : of storm, Theophr. Sign. vi. 3, 39 idv raxv b\s 

 Kpw^rj Kal rpLTOv x^i-f-^pi-n <Tr]paiv(i . . . Kai o\//e a^ovfra : Arat. I002 /cat 

 Tjcrvxa TTOiKiXXovaa [s. Kori'XXoutrn, Lob.] | wprj ev ecnrtph] KpaypJ v 7roXv(jya>va 

 KopMVT] : ib. 1022 Kal ivvidvfipn Kopaivrj \ vvKrepov deioovaa : cf. Arist. fr. 

 241, 1522 b, ap. Ael. vii. 7, Plut. ii. 674 B, Virg. G. i. 388, Hor. C. iii. 

 17, 13, Lucan v. 556; a sign of fair weather, Theophr. vi. 4, 53 koi 

 Kopmvrj fwdev evdvs edv Kpd^rj Tpis, fvBiav (Tr]p.aiv€i, Koi icnvepas ;(ft/xcoj'OS 

 rj(Tvxalav a?>ova-n : cf Ael. 1. c, Virg. G. i. 410, Geopon. i. 2, 6, &c. 

 A bad summer is portended when the fig-leaves are shaped like 

 a crow's foot, Plut. ii. 410 E. 



The Crow in augury, seldom mentioned in Greek, save in Ar. Aves ; 

 see also Ael. iii. 9, where a solitary crow is mentioned as an evil omen ; 

 according to Porph. De Abst. iii. 4, the Arabs understood the language 

 of crows. A crow on the left-hand is unlucky, Virg. Eel. ix. 15, Cic. 

 De Div. i. 39, Plaut. Asin. ii. i, 12, &c. ; cf Hopf, Orakelthiere, p. 115. 



According to Bent, Cyclades, 1885, p. 394, the inhabitants of Anti- 



