I40 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



riEPIITEPA {continued). 



irepto-TepiSeus, Schol. Ar. Ach. 866, Eust. 753, Suid.; TrepiarepiSiov', 

 LXX. Lev. i. 14, Athen. xiv. 654 a; ■n-epiCTrepioi', Pherecr. neraX. 

 2 (2. 322), Phryn. Com, TpaywS. 4 (2. 599) ap. Athen. ix. 395 c, 

 xiv. 654 b, &c. (vide Meineke). 

 A Pigeon. See also S. vv. olms, Tre'Xeia, iTupaXXis, rpuywc, <})d{T<Ta, 



First mentioned in Charon ap. Athen. ix. 394 c, and Herod, i. 138; 

 in Attic, first in Sophocles, then in the Comic Poets and Plato. 



Description. — opvn aytXaioi, Arist. H. A. i. I, 488; to aa>fia dyKu>8(s, 

 De Gen. iii. i, 749 b ; Kapno(})nyeL koI 7Tor](pay€l, H. A. viii. 3, 593. ovK 

 (ivaKv7TT€i Tvlvovaa, H. A. ix, 7, 613. Blinks with both eyelids, De Part. 

 An. ii. 12, 657, Plin. xi, [2)7) 57. koX Kovlovrai Ka\ Xovvrai, Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 49 B, 633 b ; does not migrate, lb. viii. 3, 593, 597 b. Lives 

 to eight years old (when blinded as a decoy) lb. ix. 7, 613, Plin. x. 

 (35) 52- Is the prey of hawks, <^ao-l ras Tvepicrrepas yivaxiKeiv eKaarov 

 Ta>v yeviov [tuiv UpaKu>v\, Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620, Ael. V. 50, (S:c., &c. Its 

 coo, J. Poll. V. 13 eirrois av Trepiarepas ycyyv^eiv. 



How pigeons purge themselves with the herb helxine, Plin. viii. 

 (27) 41, cf. Diosc. iv. 39, 86 ; feed greedily on Trfpiarepeav or ■ntpia-Tepiov 

 (verbena), Plin. xxv (10) 78, Diosc. iv. 60, Nic, Ther. 860 and Schol. ; 

 and on the white seeds oi Helioscophnn, Plin. xxvi. (8) 42. 



Captured by nets {eTria-ndaTpois) or more easily by springes (/3po;(oir), 

 Dion. De Avib. iii. 12. 



Anatomical particulars. — Arist. H. A. ii. 15, 506 jj-iKpiiv e\'et tov 

 crn-X^va, coare \av6aveiv oKiyov tijv aiuGrjcriv. lb. 506 b rqv \6\r]v e)(ei 

 TTpos to'ls ivripois, cf. Plin. xi. 2,7 (74)- Said to lack gall, Horap. i. 57; 

 see also Clem. Alex., Paedag. i. 15, Isidor. Orig. xii. 7, 61, and many 

 mediaeval naturalists and poets, e. g. Walther v. d. Vogelw. xix. 13 ros 

 ane dorn, ein tiibe sunder gallen ; cf. Hamlet, ii. 2, Galen, De Atra 

 Bile 9, states correctly that the Pigeon possesses gall and merely lacks 

 Tr]v 67rt Tm TJirnri Kvariv. Arist, H, A. ii. 17, 508 h npoXo^ov e;^et npo ttjs 

 KoiXins : cf Plin. xi. 27 (79)- Gepiirjv rrjv KoiXiav, De Gen. iii. 7, 670. 



Her wings are covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow 

 gold: — Arist. De Color. 3, 793 (6, 79, 96) ol rwv nepiarepav rpaxn^oi 

 (paivovrai ;^pucroetSet? tov ^coro? dvaKKcofxevov. Philo, De Temulent. tov 

 avx^va Ttjs nepia-Tfpds iv rjXiaKah nvynls ov KaTfVOTjcras p-vplas ;^'pcu/:idTa)i/ 

 dWaTTOVTci t^eay; ^ ov)(). cpoiviKovu Kai Kvnvovv Tivptmov re Ka\ avdpnKoei8es, 

 eVi Se u>xpov Kat epvdpov Kal aWa TravToBaTra icr;^ft xpu)p.aTn. See also 

 Ael. Promot, 480 a, cit, Rhein. Mus. xxviii. p. 277, 1873. Cf Lucret. 

 ii. 801 Pluma columbarum quo pacto in sole videtur, Quae sita cervices 

 circum collumque coronat ; et seq. See also Cic. Acad. Pr. ii. 25 in 

 columba plures videri colores, nee esse plus uno ; Nero ap. Senec. Q. 



