130 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



riEAEIA (continued). 



white ones ; cf. also Herod, ii. 55 fi(\aivai TreXettiSfv. UiXeta seems 

 lost as a current word in Mod. Gk. : it does not occur in 

 Aristophanes, save in the Homeric parody in Ar. A v. 575. 



In Horn, frequent ; the only Homeric word for pigeon, save for the 

 occurrence of (pnaaa in the compound (f)nacro(f)6vos, II. xv. 238. Usually 

 with epithet Tprjpwi' q.v., a word of equally doubtful etymology, the received 

 derivation from rptco appearing dubious in the light of such pigeon- 

 names as Tpvywv, turtur, Tin , <S:c. ; cf. 7ro\vTpi]pa>v (descriptive epithet 

 of the towns Thisbe and Messe), II. ii. 502, 582, and Lye. 87, 423, where 

 Tpi^pav — TveXeia : see also Eustath. Hom. II. pp. 1262, 1712, Athen. xi, 

 490 D. A prey to I'pr;^, II. xxi. 493, to KipKos, II. xxii. 139; cf. Aesch. 

 Pr. V. S58. Messengers of Zeus, when Rhea protected him from 

 Cronos, Od. xii. 62 neXeiai | rprjpwvfS, rni t ap.(3pO(Tii]v All Trarpi ^€pov(Tiv, 

 As ornaments of Nestor's cup, II. xi. 634 ^oia\ 8e TreXeidBes ap.<p]s 

 eKciarov [ovai] \ ^piVetat vepidovTo, cf. Athen. 1. c. Captured in springes, 

 Od. xxii. 468 ; cf Dion. De Avib. iii. 12 (s. v. (jxiaa-a). In Homer the 

 pigeon is never spoken of as a domesticated bird, and is definitely 

 a wild one in II. xxi. 139, and Od. xxii. 468. II. xxi. 495 suggests the 

 Kock-dove, C. livid. : 77 pa & v(f)' IprjKos koiKijv elcrenraro TreTprjv, | ^i]pap6v : 

 cf. Q. Smyrn. xii. 12 ^pf]^ a-eve neXeinv' eneiyopevr] b' lipa Kilvrj, | )(t]papiOV (S 

 jveTprjs KaTfdvauTo : cf. also Virg. Aen. v. 213. 



In Aristotle distinguished from irepio-repd : H. A. v. 13, 544 b erepov 

 icTTL nepiCTTepa Kn\ TreXuds' e'Xa'rrcoi' pev ovp tj iveKeuis, ridacraov 8e y'lveTni 

 fxdWov 1] TTfpiaTepd. 17 Se neXeids Koi peXnv Kol p.iKpov Ka\ epvdpoTvovv Kai 

 TpaxvTTovv, dio Ka\ ovdus rpec^fi. [The contrary stated, Athen. ix. 394 C] 

 lb. viii. 12, 597 h dnalpovcn 8e koi al (^drrai kol al neXeid^es, Koi ov x^eipd- 

 C<W(Ti, al 8e 77epi(TT€pa\ Karnpivovcnv. According to Sundevall, TreXeta is 

 here in Aristotle the Stock-dove, C. oenas, oii'ds being the Rock-pigeon, 

 C. livia, (}>a»}» or (jxirra, the Ring-dove, C. paliuiibus, and irepio-Tepd, 

 the Domestic Pigeon. Aubert and Wimmer, on the other hand, take 

 owis as the Stock-dove, and leave TreXeia in doubt. For my part, I do 

 not think the Stock-dove was recognized as a distinct species, but was 

 included, as in Mod. Gk. (Erhard, Heldreich), under the name (pdacra 

 with the Ring-dove. Excluding the Turtle-doves, there then only 

 remain the wild Rock-pigeon (Mod. Gk. dypionepia-Tepi) and the 

 domestic variety ; and I imagine that both olvds (q. v.) and neXeia 

 refer, in Aristotle, to the wild Rock-pigeon, and nepia-Tepd especially to 

 the Tame Pigeon; cf. also Moeris (p. 405, ed. Koch, 1830) eiwGds, 77 

 KUToiKidios TTfpicTTepd, T] ylip dypia, ireXuds. The account in Arist. H, A. 

 V. 13 is corrupt and not to be too much depended on, especially in 

 view of the discrepant quotation in Athenaeus. The chief difficulty 

 in the whole interpretation is the passage H. A. viii. 12, where it 

 is asserted that both (pdrTai and neXudSes migrate and do not remain 



