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riEPAlE {contimicd). 

 combatants, Ael. iv. I. How the Cirrhaean (Phocian) Partridges, which 

 can neither fight nor sing, dehberately starve themselves in order to be 

 unfit for food also : but the singing and fighting birds deHver them- 

 selves up rather than be slain: Ael. iv. 13; cf. Athen. ix. 390. An 

 Egyptian dwarf who imitated partridges in their cages, Philostorg. x. 

 II (cf. J. E. B. Mayor in Juv. viii. 33). 



The Partridge as food, Mart. Ep. iii. 58, 15, xiii. 65, 76, &c. 



Myth and Legend. — (Besides the stories already told under the head 

 of Breeding-Jiabits, supra). 



On nepdiKes in the wars of the Cranes and Pygmies ; Basilis and 

 Menecles, ap. Athen. ix. 39c b. 



An evil omen : 2a/ia;i vrXeva-avTes els 2v^apip Koi Karnirxoi'TfS ti]v 'S.iplTiv 

 Xu>pav, irepdiKcov avnTTTuvTOiv icai noir]advTa)U \j/6({)ov, eKnXnyevTes ecpvyot^, Kal 

 ffj-jidpTes els ras Pais dvenXevcrav, Heges. ap. Athen. xiv. 656 C. 



A fabled metamorphosis of Perdix, son of Daedalus, Hygin. Fab. 274, 

 Ovid, Met. viii. 236-260. This subject is discussed in a curious essay 

 by Gerland, Ueber die Perdixsage, Halle a. S., 1 871. The writer 

 identifies Perdix with the Lapwing. 



Sacred to Zeus and Latona, Ael. x. 35. 



8vo e'xovai Kap^ias, Theophr. ap. Athen. 1. c, Ael. x. 35 (in Paphlagonia ; 

 cf. Plin. xi. 70). 



Hostile to ;(eXcoi'?j, Ael. iv. 5, and to e'x'i'ns 6 Troro/xoyfiVcoi', Phile, 67S. 

 Friendly to eXacf>os (hence a stag's head used as a decoy), Dion. De 

 Avib. i. 1 1 ; to ^Atto, Ael. v. 48. 



Use KoAo/xoy as a remedy, Ael. i. 35, Phile, 723, Geopon. xv, i ; also 

 opiyavov, Ael. v. 46, or a leaf of laurel, Plin. viii. 27, or the herb variously 

 known as perdicium, helxine, sideritis or parthenium, Plin. xxi. (i6j 62; 

 xxii. (17) 19- 



Proverbial expressions. irep8iKns (TKeKos, nepdiKos vlos, See. vide supra. 

 Archil. 95, ap. Athen. ix. 388 f. TTTcaaa-ovaav ware jrepdiKu : with which cf. 

 Ar. Vesp. 1490, Sec, s. v. dXeKxpucSi/. Pherecr. ap. Athen. I.e. 7) rod 

 TTenoirjKoTos top Xeipojpa | i^eiaip aKoop 8evpo nep8iK0S rpoTrop. 



riEPIITEPA'. Etym. dub. According to Benfey (ii. 106) from Sk. 

 pn, ' to love ' ; a derivation not much more convincing than 

 the old oTi TTfpiaaS)s fpa (Schol. ApoU. Rh. iii. 549). Hehn 

 (Wandering of Plants, &c., Eng. ed. p. 484), and others compare 

 O. Slav. pero, ' a feather,' prali, pan'ti, ' to fl}.' 

 Other forms are irepiaTepis, Galen, vi. 708 (ed. Kiihn) ; irepto-Tepos, 

 Pherecr. Tpa. 2 (2. 266), Alexid. ivprpfx- 2 (3. 481) ap. Athen. 

 ix. 395 a, b; Eustath. Horn. p. 1712 ; a form censured by Lucian, 

 Soloec. 7 ; cf. Lat. columbiis, Yarro, De L. L. ix. 38. Dim. 



