124 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



OPTYE {continued). 



orav efinea-axTiv, iav fiev eidla fj ^opeiov rj, (xvvhvix^ovTai re Ka\ evrjfiepovcriv. 

 eav 6e votos, x.^\eTra>s ex^ovcri 8ia to firj eivai TTTrjTiKoi' vypos yap Kai 

 j3apvs 6 avepos' 8i6 Kai ol drjpfvovTes ovk enixft-povcnv iidias' Toli voriois 8 

 ov 7T€ToPTat Sto TO /3dpo?' TToXv ycip TO acopa, 5t6 Kai (Sowiref Trerofrai* 

 TTovovcn yi'ip. orav pev ovv eKeWeu Trnpa^aWcoaiv, ovk e)(ovaiv rjyfpnvns. 

 orav 6' ivTiidfv anaipaxriv, y) Te yXcoTTls avvnTraipei. Kai rj opTvyopijTpn, k.t.X. 

 Cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 30; Plin. x. 33 (23) ; Varro, De Re Rust. iii. 5, 7. 

 The connexion between the quails' flight and the wind is well known : 

 cf. Numb. xi. 31 ; Joseph. Ant. iii. I, 5. 



Modes of capture. — With a mirror, Clearch. Sol. ap. Athen. ix. 393 

 ol opTvyes nepl tov Trjs ox^eias Knipov, iav KUTOTTTpou e| ivavTias Ti? avTccv 

 Ka\ Ttpo TOvTov ^po\ov 6fjy Tpe)(0PTes Trpos tov €p(paiv6pfvov ev to) KnTonTpa 

 epniTTTovcnv els tov ^poxov. With a sort of scare-crow, Dion. De Avib. 

 iii. 9. With nets simply, on the coast of Egypt, Diodor. i. 60. A quail- 

 catcher, oprvyodrjpns, Plat. Euthyd. 290 D. Cf. Arist. H. A. ix. 8, 614 

 ovto) 8e a(p68pa Kai ol TrepdiKa Kai ol opruye? iTVTorjVTai irepi Tqv o;((emf, oicrr 

 els Tovs drjpevovTas e'pjviTTTOvcTi Kai ttoWukis Kadi^dvovaiv eni Tas KeCpaXas. 



Abundance and cheapness : cf. Antiph. ap. Athen. ix. 397 nXelovs 5' 

 elai vvv [ol Taa>ves^ tS>v opTvyav. Juv. Sat. 12. 97. 



In Egypt, according to Herod, ii. 77 tovs opTvyas i>pa aiTeovrai, npo- 

 TapixevtjavTes : cf. Diodor. I.e.: vide s. v. yjLvviov. On potted Quails 

 in the Morea, cf. G. St. Hilaire ap. Bory de St. Vincent, Mort^e, 

 Oiseaux, p. 35. 



Domesticated and pet Quails: Ar. Pax 7S9 oprvyas olKoyevels : cf. Ar. 

 Fr. 36; Arist. Probl. x. 12, i ; Plut. V. Alcib. i. 195 E, Mor. ii. 799 D ; 

 Varro, iii. 5, 2 ; M. Anton, i. 6. A lover's gift, Ar. Av. 707, Plat. Lys. 

 211 E: cf. Plant. Capt. v. 4, 5 ; vide Jacobs ad Anthol. x. p. 13. 

 Hence (piXopTv^, Plat. Lys. 212 D ; (piXopTvyorpocfjeo), Artemid. iii. 5, &c. 



Quail-fights. Lucian, Anach. ^7 (2, 918); Plat. Lys. 211 E; Plut. 

 i. 930 E, cock and quail-fights between Antony and Caesar (cf. Ant. and 

 CI. ii. 4 ' and his quails ever Beat mine, inhoop'd at odds ') ; ibid. ii. 207 B 

 how in Egypt a procurator of Augustus killed and ate a victorious 

 quail, and how retribution fell on him ; Ovid, Amor. ii. 6, 27, &c. This 

 sport, still common among the Chinese, Malays, &c., was practised 

 in Italy in Aldrovandi's time (Ornith. ii. p. 74 : cf. Voss., De Idol. c. 86, 

 p. 596). For a Chinese picture of a quail-fight, showing the ' hoop ' 

 or TrjXia (cf. supra, p. 22, s. v. dXeKxpuoif), see Douce's Illustr. of 

 Shakspeare, p. 367 ; cf. also Bell's Travels in China, i. p. 404 (8vo 

 ed.). See also Becker's Charicles, The birds are said to have been 

 stimulated to fight with bells, cf Schol. in Ar. Lys. 485 (aKcoficoftcrror) ; 

 see also Aristarch. ap. Harpocrat. s. v. SiEKuSui/iae. 



Ouail-striking, opTvyoKonia, Jul. Pollux, ix. 107. The player was 

 oprvyoKOTTos, Plat. Com. IlepiaXy. 4, ap. Athen. xi. 506 D or arvcpoKonos. 



