TAQI— TETAPOZ 167 



TAJil '.continued'). 



irepuiyMV fh kvkXov aira 8i.aT(Tnyfxevoii ofi^aaiv' ra Si) Kara Tr']s ovpctt; 

 XdnTTovaiv uxTTvep dcTTepes avra, k.t.X. Chrysipp. ap. Plut. ii. IO44 C 6 racos 

 eveKu rrjs copas yiyove, Sui to kuWos (ivrtjs. Cf. 0pp. Cyneg. ill. 344 ocraov 

 iv rjfpioiai raas KaXos oIu)pol(ti. Plin. X. (20) 22 Gemmantes laudatus 

 expandit colores adverse maxime sole, quia sic fulgentius radiant : . . . 

 omnesque in acervum contrahit pennarum, quos spectari gaudet oculos. 

 Colum. R. R. ix. 1 1 Semetipsum, veluti mirantem, caudae gemmantibus 

 pennis protegit, idque cum facit, rotate dicitur, Ovid, Art. Amor. i. 627 

 Laudatas ostendit aves lunonia pennas ; Si tacitus spectes, ilia recondit 

 opes : cf. id. De Medic. Fac. 33, Met. xiii. 802. Cf. also Hor. Sat. ii. 2, 

 24, Lucret. ii. 806, Stat. Silv. ii. 3, 26, Mart. xiii. 70, Propert. ii. 24, li ; 

 Phaedr. iii. 57, &c., &c. It is, however, much ashamed of its ugly feet : 

 Phile, 208 crvaTeXkerai 8e koX KaTaaira rbv TV(f)ov \ opwv SutreiSets ex puriScoj^ 



Its harsh cry, Anaxilaus ap. Ath. xiv. 655 a olfxui^tav racb? : Eup. 2. 

 437 (4) jJn'iTTore 6p€\l/(o Tvapa Ilepaefpov;] TOLuvde rawv, us tovs evSovTas eyeipei. 



Various legends. 



Uses as a charm Xivov plC^p, which it carries under its wing, Ael. xi. 18. 



How the peacock swallows its excrement, lest we should use it in 

 medicine, Plin. xxix. 38. 



A peacock enamoured of a maid, Clearch. ap. Athen. xiii. 6o5 c. 



Fable.— The Crane and the Peacock, Babr. Ixv, cxlii (ed. Rutherford) 

 " cru 8' MS cWeKToip ralade rals KaTaxpvaoLS | X"M«'' 7rr€,'ji''(70"//," (prjaiv, "old' 

 avcn (f)aivy]." Cf. Suid., S. v. yepavos. 



TEAE'AI. a bird-name (.?). Ar. Av. 168 and Schol. 



TE'TAPOI. a Pheasant. A Median word, whence Pars, fedyrw, 



adopted into Old Scl. telravi, tclria, &c. ; also Lith. teterva, 



ieierwas, kliera, whence Finn, kiri; adopted further into Sw. 



ijdder, Dan. hiir, and possibly incorporated (Hehn) into Eng. 



turkey. Cf. Hind. /////;-/, a Partridge or Francolin ; Lat. klrao, 



Gk. Terpal, TCTpdui'. Cf. Pott, Etym. Forsch. i. p. Ixxx. 



Ptolem. Euerg. ap. Athen. xiv. 654 c to -re tS)v (paaiavcbv ovs reTdpovs 



{al. Terpduivas) ovofid^ovaLV. [ouy] ov fiovov eK Mrj^eias puTenf^iniTO, dWa 



KOLi vofxddns opvidas vrro^aXcov fnoirjae Tr'Kt]dos, coore Koi aiTe'iadai. to 8e 



(Spoopn TToXvreXes dnocf)aivovcnv : cf. ibid. IX. 387 ^• 



Also TttTupas, Epaenetus, Artemid. and Pamph. ap. Athen. ix. 387 d 

 6 (pacrinvos opvis Tarvpns KokeiTai : cf. Hesych., who gives also TtTupas, 

 TiTupos, cf. Theophr. Char. vi. 2. Hesych. has further TeTapyi]- c^auya- 

 vSav flBoi, where word and gloss are alike corrupt ; cj. TeTopoi' (^ao-tafwi/ 

 ejbos. Tau'raffos and reyyupos, Hesych., are probably also akin. See 

 also s. vv. Terpal, reTpa.u)v. 



