nHNEAOvp— nOP<t>YPII 149 



ni<t>Yr= {continued). 



Oxon. ii. p. 245 ; Lob. Proll. p. 96. I cannot help thinking that the 

 word is akin to <t)a)u^, and its alhes. 



riAA'rrOZ (v. 1. irXdyxos, ttXcii'os, Niphus kX(£yyos, q.v. supra) = ctjtto- 



(jxiv/og^ fAop4)i'os (Arist.). 

 A kind of Eagle. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 618 b erepov 8e yevos dfTov ((tt\v o TrXoyyor KaXeirni, 

 Sevrepos fieyedei Koi p(iofir]. oiKel 8e ^ij(r(Tas Koi ajKi) koX Xi'/xray. fTTiKoKeiTni 

 8e vrjTTOcfiovos K(u iJ.i'>p(f)vos' ov KOL ' Ofirjpos fiffxvrjTni iv rfj tov Hpidfjiov e^68a>, 

 II. xxiv. 316. 



PHn. X. I Tertii generis morphnus, quam Homerus et percnon vocat, 

 aHqui et plancum et anatariam, secunda magnitudine et vi : huicque 

 vita circa lacus, &c. 



Commentators have given innumerable interpretations of this word. 

 If it be really a concrete specific appellation, then the Spotted Eagle, 

 Aqiiila naevia^ fulfils the conditions best : it is large and powerful, 

 but less so than the Golden Eagle ; it frequents water, feeding partly 

 on fish (especially on pieces of decomposing fish, cf. Shelley, Birds of 

 Egypt, p. 206), and partly on waterfowl and sea-birds (cf. Buffon, 

 Hist, des Ois. i. 127, Sundevall, p. 104) ; if fx6p(t)i'os, nepKvos and 

 (?) KXdyyos are to be taken as descriptive epithets (as they are by some), 

 it is dusky, mottled, and noisy. 



The passage quoted from Pliny is full of fables, and includes the 

 story of the death of Aeschylus, which suggests rather the habits of 

 the Liimmergeier (cf. s. v. deros, Ael. vii. 16). 



noiKlAl'l. An unknown bird: taken by medjaeval writers (Belon, 



Aldrovandi, &c.) for the Goldfinch, from the statement that it 



is identical with dKa^Oi's, q.v. 



Arist. H. A. ix. i, 609; hostile to KopvSav, nnro) (tt/ttp"), and ;^Xa)/jei'f. 

 Schol. ad Theocr. vii. 171 (cit. Schn. in Arist. vol. ii. p. 5) uKavdis di 

 opvfov fCTTi TTOiKikov (col \iyvp6v, KoKeiTai he Ka\ ttolkiWs Sia rr]v xpolav, 



rioiKi'Xos opvi<s was also an expression for the Peacock. Cf. Athen. 

 ix. 397 C 'Ai/Ti^coiTi Se TO) pi]TopL \6yos p.ev ytypanrai €)(u>v (Tnypajipa Yltpi 

 Ta5)V' Kai iv avT(a to) Xoyco nv8e[j.la /jLVfia tov 6v6p,aTos yii'STtii, oppas de ttviki- 

 Xovs TToXXaKis fP aiiTco ovop.('i^ei, 



nONTIKO'Z "OPNIZ. The Pheasant. 



Hesych. (Pna-invoi' opvus noiol, 01 8e tovs Ilni'TiKovi (f)aa-iv, 



nOP<f>YPri. An unknown bird = Xa9nrop<|)upis. 



Mentioned Ar. Av. 304. Ibyc. fr. 4, ap. Athen. ix. 38S rnvvnTtpos 

 (CIS oKct nop<f)vpls. Ibyc. fr. 8, 1. c. atoXo'Seipoi 'Ka6iKop(pvpi8fs. According 

 to Callimachus, ap. Athen. I.e., Tropcpvpis differs from ■n-op(pvplav. 



