17° A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



TPHPI2N [^conti lined). 



Moero, ap. Athen. xi. 491 B of the doves that fed the Infant Jupiter 



in the Cretan cave, tov /xev apa Tprjijooves vtto ^odea Tpi<^ov ciirpco I 

 dfi^pocriTju cf)op€ovcrai an uKeavolo poucov. 



Lyc. 87 (vide s. v. xopyos) ; ibid. 423 6V' els v66ov rprjpwvos rjvvda-BT] 

 Xe'xoi. 0pp. Cyn. i. 73 Tpt]p(ovas eXov dovnKrjes : ibid. i. 352 €VT€ yap is 

 (fyiXoTTjTa 6oa\ Tpf]pa>ves 'toooi | piyvvpei/ai (TTop.aT€(T(Ti ^apv(j)66yyois aXoxoLai. : 

 ibid. i. 385 ei'iipi Ka\ rprjpoves fnidvovai ne\fiais. 



Hence TtoKvTpripcov, an epithet of Laconian Messe, and Boeotian 

 Thisbe, II. ii. 502, 582 ; cf. Stat. Theb. vii. 261 Dionaeis avibus circum- 

 sona Thisbe. There is a curious apparent coincidence between the 

 association with doves of the town Thisbe, and the connexion of 

 Thisbe in the story of Pyramus and Thisbe (Ovid, Met. iv) with 

 Babylon, urbs Semiramidis : on the dove-myth of Semiramis, vide s. v. 

 TrepiCTTepd. 



TPI KKOI' opviBapiov o /cat ^aaiXei/s vtto 'HX(lcov, Hesjxh. Cf. BpiKKtti, 



SpiKrjai, &c. ; also possibly, Tptx^s. 



TPIO'PXHZ. INISS. have also rptopxis ; rpiopxis in Ar. Av. 1206, 

 Simon. Iambi. 8. irupiopxis in Cram. An. Or. Oxon. ii. 457. See 

 also s. v. PcXXouVtjs. 



A Buzzard (?), Bu/eo vulgaris, auctt. INIod. Gk. ^apfiaKtva. 



Ar. Av. 1181, 1206; also in Ar. Vesp. 1532, where the Buzzards are 

 called the children of Poseidon. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b ean 8e 6 TpiopxrjS to peyedos ooov Ikt'ivos. 

 Kai (paiveToi ovtos 8ia navTos. lb. ix. 36, 620 KpiiTiaros ra>p lepdncov. 

 Ibid. I, 609 Tpiopxrjs Ka\ CJ)pvvos Ka\ 6(j)is ■noKipici' KareadUt yap 6 

 Tpiopxrjs nvTovs. Ael. xii. 4 ; sacred to Artemis. Mentioned also, Lyc. 

 147 ; Plin. X. (8) 9 Triorchem a numero testium. Buteonem hunc 

 appellant Romani. 



Tradition interprets rpwpxrjs as the Buzzard, with which the descrip- 

 tion given agrees save for the important epithet KpuTiaTos. Some writers, 

 e.g.Thuanus, DeRe Accip.,1612, pp. 22,100, repudiate the identification. 



The mediaeval anatomists, Aldrovandi, Gesner, &c., sought and 

 found (!) the abnormality from which the bird apparently derives its 

 name : but the derivation is probably quite false, and the word 

 corrupted by Volksetymologlc. Is it possible that its origin lies hid 

 under the name rdpyos, (q. v.) ? 



According to Nicander, ap. Anton. Lib. c. xiv, INIunychus was meta- 

 morphosed into the bird rpiopx^^i and his son Alcander into opxiXos, 

 other two sons becoming lxvevpu)v and kvu>v, both of which are here 

 spoken of as birds. There is, to my mind, an Egyptian look about 

 the whole story. 



