lOO A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOPflNH {conlimicJ). 



Var. Phil., i. p. 169 ; Fauriel, Chants de la Gr. Mod., i. p. cix. See also 

 s.v. x^^''^'^*'' 



Frequent in Fable, e.g. Kopwvr] koi Kopa^ (the Crow that could not 

 prophesy), Fab. Aes, 202 ; Koputvi] ^Adrjvd dvovaa, ib. 213. ;(€\i8a)«' ica\ 

 KopodvT], ib. 416. 



Proverb KopMvrj a-Kopnlov [rjpnna-e]. Anth. Pal. xii. 92, Hesych., Suid., 

 cf. Ael. vii. 7, Zenob. iv. 60, p. loi. 



KOPfi'NH 'H AAYAI'AZ. The Nightingale ; vide s. v. dTjSwi'. 



KOPn'NH 'H ©AAA'IIIOI. An undetermined sea-bird. 



Od. V. 66 ravvyXaxTcrol re Kopavai \ elvahiai, Trjaiv re daXuaata epya 

 ytifirfKev. Ib. xii. 418, xiv. 308 oi he Kopaurjiriv 'UeXoi nepX vrja pfXaivav | 

 Kvfiaaiv e^cfyopeovTo. 



Arrian. Peripl. C. 21 Xtipoi xai aWvim Ka\ Kopcbvat a\ Onkacra-iai to nXfidos 

 01) aTiidprjToi' ovToi oi opviOes depaTrevovaiu tou 'A;^'^^^''^^' top veuiv. eaaev 

 6crrjp.epai KaTaTreTuvTai es tt]v BciXacrcrav' eniiTa otto rrjS 6aXdaaT]s /3e/3psy- 

 fievoi TO. nrepci anovhrj aii eaneTovTai fs tup veav, nai paivovai tov veoiv. 



Arat. Progn. 950 rj nov k(u XaKepv^a nap' rj'iovi irpovxovaj] \ \fifiaToi 

 epxofJLei'ov xepcTM inreTV\j/e Kopiivr], \ rj ttov koX rtOTajio'io i^ai^raro fJ-expi nap' 

 aKpovs 1 a>novs (K Kf(f>a\ris, rj kol fidXa nacra KoXt)/x/3a, | r) noXXrj aTpefpeTUi 

 nap' vSiop naxen Kpco^ovcra : cf. Geopon. i. 3, 7 i^nl Kopcovr] en alyuiXov Tt)u 

 Kecf)aXi)v dia^pexovaa, fj ndcra vrjxofievrj, Kal vvktos acpodpoTspov Kpu^ovaa, 

 ofj.j3povs npop.rjvvei : Theophr. Sign. vi. I, 16 Koprnvq en\ neTpas Kopvaao- 

 p-evT] rjv Kifia KaTaKXv^ei v8o3p (Tiip,a'ivei' Ka\ KoXvfi^axra noXXaKis Kal nepi- 

 neTOfxevi] vdcop arjpaivei. 



These passages, with which compare Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b, and 

 Ael. XV. 22, denote a dififerent bird altogether from Kopavrj, evidently 

 a swimming and diving bird, and not merely one frequenting the sea- 

 shore as the Carrion Crow and Hooded Crow do. It is neither a Xdpos 

 nor an aWvia (Arrian, 1. c.) though identified with them by the Scholiast 

 in Od. v. 66, with whom cf. Hesych. Kopmvai' aXuu aWvun, KoXvfil3i8es. 

 It may be another name for the Cormorant (vide s. v. Kopal, p) : but 

 it is not safely identifiable. 



It is apparently such passages which are imitated in Virg. G. i. 388 

 Tum cornix plena pluviam vocat improba voce, Et sola in sicca secum 

 spatiatur arena ; cf. Claud. De Bell. Gild. 492 Heu nimium segnes, 

 cauta qui mente notatis. Si revolant mergi, graditur si littore cornix. 

 Cf. however the weather-prophecies s.v. koXoios. It is at least pretty 

 clear that in such passages the Latin poets were thinking more of what 

 they had read than of what they had seen. 

 KO'IKIKOI, KOTiKas, kottos, kottuXos. The Common Fowl. Hesych. 



KOCTKIKOI' ol KUTOIKlSiOI opVlSeS. KOTLKaS' dXeKTCOp, KOTTOS' OpViS. 



KUTTvXoL' KaTOlKLdiai opvfis. 



