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MAAAKOKPANEYI {continued). 



(Belon, Schneider, Brisson, »S:c.). It must, however, be remembered 

 that the bird is mentioned once only, and in a portion of the Historia 

 Animalium that is full of difficulties and incongruities: the epithets 

 associated with it are numerous, but mean little or nothing ; ;Yoi/5poTi;7rof 

 does not occur elsewhere ; dXiW-erai y\avKi is a phrase of doubtful 

 meaning and questionable construction. The Aristotelian description 

 seems at first sight copious and adequate, but in the words of Camus, 

 'autant qu'il semblerait devoir etre facile de reconnoitre le Crane-mol, 

 autant est-il certain que jusqu'ici il ne I'a pas ete.' The bird irapSaXos, 

 q, v., is next mentioned, and is in like manner impossible to identify. 



MAPA'IIAI- opviees, Hesych. 



MATTY'HI" 17 fiiv (pMvfj MaKfdovLKT], opvii, Hesych. Cf. ixaTTvri, Artemid. 

 ap. Athen. xiv. 663 D, &c. 



MEGYGPI'AEI" ei8oi yuKpcov opviBov, Hesych. 



MEAArKO'PY<t>OI. Probably the Marsh Tit, Fams pahistris, L. ; in 

 which identification Sundevall and Aub. and Wimm. agree. But 

 there was a confusion between this bird and the Blackcap Warbler, 

 MotaciUa atricapilla, L., Sylvia airi'captlla, auctt. The verb 



lxe\ayKopv(piCo), tO warblc Hkc the iif'KayKopvcpos, HerO Spir. p. 2 20j 



suggests the latter of these two. See also s.v. aoKaXi's. 



Mentioned in Ar. Av. 887. 



Arist. H. A. IX. 15, 616 b ma nXelara tikt(i para t'iv iv Aijivr] (TTpovBov' 

 iaipaTai p,kv yap Ka\ enTaKnideKa, tikt€1 pevTOi Ka\ irkeiui f; fiKO(Tiv. nVrft 

 b del irfpiTTa, q)S (f^aaiv. vtomvn 8e Ka\ ovtos iv Toii devdpeai, Ka\ /SocrKerat 

 Toi'S (TKoiXrjKas, tSiov 8e tovto) Ka\ ar]86vi irapa tovs aXXovs opuidas to pfj 

 ex^^v TTjs yXci>TTr]s to ii^v [vide s. v. €ttoi|/]. ix. 49 B, 632 b fifrajSiiXXovaiv 

 els dXXrjXovs ai avKaXldes Ka\ ol peXayKopvfpoi' yipeTai S' 17 ptv crvKaXls nepl 

 TijV onatpav, 6 de peXayKopvcpos tvdewi ptTO. to cjidivoTrwpov (cf. Geopon. 

 XV. I, 22 evdvs pfTci TO TpvyrjTov), Siac^spoucri 8e /cat ovtol ov6ev aXXriXav 



nXfjU TT] XP^9- ''''*' '''11 4^^ffi- ^Tt 8 6 avTOS fO'TlV OpVlS, fj8r] COTVTai TTfpl Tr)v 



fXfTa^oXfjV eKorepov to yei/Oi tovto, ovno) de TeXeuis peTnjSe^XriKOTa ov8' ev 

 6aTep(p eiSei ovTa. Cf. Pliu. X. 44, Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ii. 69, p. 65 b 

 bi'O S' elvai yevrj aiTov avKaXiha Kal peXayKopvcpop. Ael. vi. 46, Phile 60 1 

 Tov fieXiiyKopvcpov ayvoi eKTp'i^ei. A fabulous Arabian bird, Plin. xxxvii. t,2)- 



MEAA'MriYroX. A word applied to the Eagle in the Fable of the Fox 

 and the Eagle, Archil, fr. no (86). Schol. Venet. II. xxiv. 315 



f'idiOe Ku\ 6 'ApxiXoxos peXapnvyov tovtov KoKeiv : Schol. LyC. 9 1 eicrt 

 yap peXapnvyot, irvyapyoi, e'ldr] deTav KaT 'Apxi-Xoxov : cf. also Hes\ch., 



and Gaisford's note. Cf. also Schneidewin ; Farnell, Gk. Lyr. 

 Poets, p. 300, &c. 



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