NYKTIKOPAE— OKNOZ. 121 



OINAZ (co)2t2)tueif). 



2. Cf. 'icScas, Hesych., also Tzetz. Chiliad, vii. 126. [The same word 

 is supposed by some to give its name to the island of S. Colu!nba.'\ 

 It was then probably either a sacred name, introduced with a foreign 

 cult, or else a Phoenician sailor's name, especially for the wild Rock- 

 pigeons of the coast ; and on this latter interpretation the passage in 

 Arist. viii. 3, 593 would refer naturally to an autumn flight inland from 

 the sea-board breeding-places. 



The Oii/orpoTTot, who were turned into doves, Lye. 570, cf. Simon, 

 fr. 24 (39), ap. Schol. Horn. Od. iv. 164, Serv. Virg. Aen. iii. 8, Ovid, 

 Met. xiii. 674, &c., may derive their name from the same root, and the 

 story of their turning water into wine may then be due to a case of 

 * Volksetymologie.' 



By this word, and its Semitic root, I would seek to explain the 

 curious 'canting heraldry' which represents the constellation of the 

 Pleiads as a bunch of grapes, and gives to it the name ^orpus {^ot^w 

 yap avTcis Xeyovcrtv, Schol. II. xviii. 486 ; Ideler, Sternnamen, p. 317). 

 On coins of Mallos in Cilicia, we have Doves represented, whose 

 bodies are formed by bunches of grapes, and in other cases the dove 

 is lost and replaced simply by the grapes: on the relation of these 

 figures and their other associated symbols to the constellation of the 

 Pleiad, see M. J. Svoronos, Bull, de Corresp. Hellen., 1S94, p. 107, <S:c. 

 I imagine that an old confusion, intentional or unintentional, between 

 olvds and olvoi may have been the cause of this strange and unwonted 

 prefigurement of the constellation. The association of the dove with 

 the bunch of grapes survives in early Christian symbolism ; cf. Gorius, 

 Diss. XIII. De Gemmis Astrif. Christian, (vol. iii. p. 249) 1750. 



The symbolic meaning here assigned to olvds tends to suggest a 

 similar derivation and interpretation in the case of olvdvQt]. 



OI'NIA'H. According to Hesych. a kind of Raven, but probably = 

 olvds, which latter word Hesych. interprets yevos KopaKos' ol Be 



dypiav TTtpiarepav. Cf. "^oivif.^. 



OTlTPOI. An unknown small bird. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b, mentioned as a small insect-eating bird 

 with Tvpavvos, eniXais, SiC. 



On the assumption that olarpos (the Gad-fly) must denote some very 

 small bird, Sundevall follows the mediaeval naturalists in identifying it 

 with the Willow-wren, Sylvia trochiliis, L., our smallest bird next to 

 the Gold-crests. 



"OKNOI, s. hKVQ%. A bird of the Heron kind, with fabulous attributes ; 

 in Arist. H. A. ix. i, 609 b, 18, 617, Ael. v. 36 — daTepias, q.v. 



Pausan. x. 29, 2 okvov S' ouv koI fiavreoov ol opoivns tovs oIcdvovs KoKovcri 



