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♦OmiKOnTEPOI {continued). 



great Esteem, for its excellent Taste and most delicious Relish, will 

 appear from the following Quotations' (Douglass, op. infra cit.) : Plin. 

 X. (48) 68 Phoenicopteri linguam praecipui saporis esse, Apicius docuit ; 

 Martial, xiii. 71 sed lingua gulosis Nostra sapit : quid si garrula lingua 

 foret? cf. also Sueton. Vitell. xiii. The brain was also a tid-bit, and 

 Heliogabalus (Lamprid. 20, p. 108) exhibuit Palatinis dapes extis et 

 cerebellis Phoenicopterorum refertas. Receipts for the cookery of 

 Flamingos are given (without mention of the tongue) by Apic. (?) De 

 Re Coquin. vi. 7. I am inclined to believe that such costly indulgences 

 of the palate were often determined by obscure superstitious motives 

 (as are many Chinese luxuries) rather than by real or imaginary 

 refinements of taste. Nevertheless the Flamingo's tongue is said to 

 be still appreciated : cf. Von der Miihle, Ornithol. Griechenlands, 

 p. 1 18 Ein franzosischer Schiffscapitain brachte mir einige von Smyrna, 

 wo sic sehr haufig sind, und von den Jagern den Englandern zum 

 Verkaufe angeboten werden, welche die dicke fleischige Zunge als 

 Leckerbissen verzehren. Cf. (int. al.) the interesting paper by 

 Dr. J. Douglass in Phil. Trans, v. p. 63, 1721. 



♦OINI'KOYPOI. The Redstart, Luscinia phoenicurus, L., and L. tHhys 



(Scop.). IMod. Gk. KOK/cti'OKcoXor, yiavvaKos., KoXauT^rjs (Bik^las). 



Arist. H. A. ix, 49 B, 632 b ; Plin. x. (29) 44 ; vide s. v. epiGaKos. Cf. 

 also Geop. xv. i, 22. 



♦OTNIH s. <|)otVi^.- The Phoenix, an astronomical symbol of the 



Egyptians. Eg. dennu. 



First in Hes. Fr. 50, 4. 



Herod, ii. y^ eori Se Ka\ aWos opvis Ipos, tco ovvoyta (polvi^' e'yo) fief jxiv 

 ovK €i8ov, el fif] odov ypafpll' '^"' 7^P ^') ''''' cyrrdi'ios enKpoiTa <r(f>i, 8ia ireav 

 (&)S HXiouTToXirat Xeyoucrt) TrevTaKocrla>u, (f>oiTai> 8e Tore (pacri, ineav oi 

 aTVoOavrj 6 Trarrjp, fcrrt 8e, et rfj yparp^ napopioios, ToaoaBe koI TotocrSe* to. 

 fiev avTOxi xP^f^oKopn rav Trrepcov, ra 8e epvBpa' es ra paKiara nlera rrepiT]- 

 yrjaiu oiMOiOTaTos, Koi to peyados. tovtov 8e Xeyovcri prp)(^avaadai rahe, e'pol 

 (lev ov TVKTTO. XeyoPTes. e^ Apa^Lr]s 6ppea>pevov es to Iphv tov 'HXi'ou 

 Kopi^eiv TOV Trarepa iv crpvpvr) epnXacrcTOVTa, koI BauTeiv ev tov 'HXi'ou tc5 

 ip^. Kopi^eiv be ovTa>' irpaiTov, tP]s (Tp.vpvr]s (oov TrXacrcrfii/ oaov re Bwrnos 

 iaTi (fiepeiv' pera 8e TreipairOai avTO (popeovra' eireav 8e drroneiprjdij, ovtco 

 81] KoiXrjvaVTa to cpdi', tov naTepa es avTo e'vTidevai, crpvpvr] 8e aWt] epTtXacr- 

 (Tfiv ToiiTO KUT o Ti TOV (OOV eKK0i\7]i'as evedrjKe tov iraTepa' ecTKeipevov 8e tov 

 rruTpos yivecrdai rcouro ^dpos' epirXdaavTa 8e Kopl^eiv piv in AiyvKTov es 

 tov 'HXiod to Ipov. Cf. Ael. vi. 58, Philostr. Vit. ApoUon. Tyan. iii. 49, 

 p. 13s (Olear.), Antiph. Com. iii. 96 ev 'UXiov pev (paai yiyveaOin TroXei 

 <f)oiviKus, ev 'Adrjvais 8e yXavKas. Artemid., Suid., Ovid, Metam. xv. 

 392, &c. 



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