126 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



OPTYE [contimied). 



r\i\ioio were observed and their festivals celebrated, as of old in 

 Deles. Cf. (int. al.) Pind. Nem. i. 



The word OPTYroOHPA, on coins of Tarsus (Mionnet, Suppl. vii. 

 p. 258, «S:c.) is supposed to refer to a similar symbolic festival (Stark, 

 op. c, p. 44). 



Hostile to TT^KiKav, Ael. vi. 45, Phile, 684. A prey to hawks, Ael. 



vii. 9- Arist. H. A. ix. 11, 615 o lipa.^ Tt)v rov oprvyos Kapdiav ov 

 KaTecrdUi. 



How the Quails, migrating, carry each three stones, to hear by 

 drgpping them whether they be over the sea, Dion. De Avib. i. 30 : cf. 

 Plin. X. 33 (sand for ballast) ; cf. s.v. y^'p°'^°5. 



An obscure allusion in Lye. 401 rvfi^os de yeiroov oprvyos ntTpovfievrjs] 

 rpepoiv (PvXd^ei po^dov Alyalas aXos. 



Proverbial Eeferences.— Philostr. V. Sophist., p. 253 (ed. Kayser) 

 p.r] yap 8i) fv relx^i iTrnvTrj^a>p.iv oprvyav avaxlrdpevoL (pvcriv, Antiph. ap. 

 Athen. ix. p. 392 C w? 8fj av ri noLflv bwdiievos oprvyiov ^vxqi' eX'^" » 



"OPXIAOZ, s. opxiXos. Probably the Wren ; cf. rpdxiXos. Hesych. 

 opviddpiov Ta>v fvavrjTcov' Xeyerai 6e vno tivcop craKTriylKJTi^i : cf. Phot. 

 351. 12. 



Ar. Av. 569 ^ao-iXevy eVr' opxiXos opvts : cf. trochiliis, Plin. viii. 2>lt 

 X. 95. Mentioned also Ar. Vesp. 15 13. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 yXav^ Kai opyCkos noXepia, to. yap (oa KarfaOUi 

 T^? yXniiKOf. 



A sign of rain, Arat. 1025 opxiKos ^ K.a\ eptdevs bvvcdv is Ko'CKas 6)(€ds. 

 Cf Theophr. De Sign. vi. 3. 39, 4. 53. According to Nicand. ap. Anton. 

 Lib. c. xiv, Alcander, son of Munychus, was metamorphosed into the 

 bird op^tkos. 



An evil omen at weddings : Avienus in Arat. 1. c. infestus floricomis 

 hymenaeis orchilus. Cf. Euphor. ap. Tzetz. ad Lycophr. p. 83 (cit. 

 Schn. in Arist. 1. c), ttoiklXov ovSe peXadpov opx^Xos 'inTTj Kv^ikos. ov8' 

 rjeiae KdKov ydjxov €X.dop.(vos Kp($- 



opxiXos and rpoxiXos (qu. r-opxiXos) are probably identical words, 

 and of foreign origin. KopOiXos (q. v.) may be yet another corrupt 

 form. Lauth (in Horap. i. 57, Sitzungsber. d. Bayer. Akad. 1876, p. 107), 

 comparing Copt. OTp<L avz's, and OTDO f'^^, affords a hint which 

 may explain, by referring to an Egyptian source, the origin both of 

 opxiXos and of its synonym or epithet ^aaiXevs. 



'OITOKATA'KTHI, 'OITOKAA'ZTHI, 'OZTOKO'PAH. In Byz. Gk. for 



ossi/ragus. 



OY'PAH. The Athenian name for rerpi^ (q-v.), Arist. H. A. vi. i, 559. 



