1 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



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European languages is so striking, that I suspect for it a non-Aryan 

 root. 



An Eagle, the generic word; see also dKuXcifc, dXideros, arrap, 

 dpyioirous, api<|>os, dorepias, eupufjit'Swv, i^i^os, I8e<ui>, KUKi/ias, 

 Xayw^oyos, {JieXai/dieTOS, fjiop^yos, i>T]TTo<|>6i>o9, irXdyyos, iruyapyos, 

 Xpuaderos, c.: v. Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b, ix. 32, 6i8b, 619 a ; on the 

 species of Eagles cf. Cuvier ad Plin. x. 3, ed. Grandsaigne, whose iden- 

 tifications, however, like those of Sundevall (Thierarten des Aristoteles, 

 Stockholm, 1863, also in Swedish, K. Akad. Wetensk. Stockholm, 1862), 

 are in my opinion to be received with caution. Besides the Osprey, 

 Pandion Haliaetus, and the Short-toed Eagle, Ctrcaettts gallicus, the 

 following true Eagles are regular inhabitants of Greece, A. Chrysaetus, 

 A. heliaca, A. naema, A. Bonelli, A. pennata, and Haliaetus albicilla. 

 Though occasional passages may be descriptive of the habits of one 

 rather than another of these species, there is no evidence of any of 

 these having been recognized as distinct : such names as dXuieros, fieXav- 

 deros and \aya(j)6vos have a mystical or symbolic rather than a de- 

 scriptive or specific meaning. On the confusion of the Eagles with the 

 Vultures, vide infra. Eagles are common in Greece, though (Xen. 

 Venat v. 24) absent from many of the islands, for want of hills. On 

 the Eagle in classical art and mythology cf. O. Keller, Thiere d. cl. 

 Alterthums, pp. 236-276, 430-452. 



Epithets. Horn. ay/cvXo^ei'X^f (cf. Ar. Eq. 197 Pvpaaieros ayKuXo^eiX?;? 

 S. -XJjXjjs), aWcov, fieidy, KapriaTos KOI O>KLCTTOS Trererji/aii/, p.e\as (cf. Aesch. 

 Ag. 115, Plut. Amat. iv. 9), o^vraros depKfadai, reXeioraro? (II. viii. 247), 

 v^ineTTjs s. tynreTrjeis (cf. Soph. Oenom. fr. 423, Horap. ii. 56, c.), Ail 

 (piXraros (II. xxiv. 310). Hes. Th. 523 ravinrrfpos (cf. Find. P. v. 112, 

 II. xxiv. 317, Orphic. Lith. 124). Find. P. i. 6, v. 48, Isthm. vi dpxbs 

 ola>vS)v, Ol. xiii. 21 /3ao-iXeu? oia>v>v (cf. Aesch. Ag. 1 15 ; Ar. Eq. 1087 ; 

 Ael. ix. 2 ; Nic. Ther. 448 ; Callim. Hymn. Jov. 68 ; Ovid, Met. iv. 362 ; 

 the Eagle was an Egyptian symbol for the king, according to Horap. 

 ii. 56, and was worshipped as a royal bird by the Thebans, Diod. Sic. 

 i- 87, 9) ; a royal emblem also at Babylon, Philostr. Imagg. 386 K. 

 Aesch. Pr. V. 1024 Aios TTTTJVOS KIXOV, da(f>oivbs aieros I Soph. fr. 766 

 a-Kf?7rro/3a/io)j/ cu'eros, KVO>V Aids (cf. Ar. Av. 515, Find. P. i. 6). Aesch. 



Suppl. 212, Soph. Aj. 1040, Eur. Ion 159, &C. : Z^z/6? opvis, Zrjvbs aieroy, 



Zrjvbs Kijpv^. Antip. Sid. xcii in Gk. Anth. (Jac.) ii. 33 *Opvi, Atos 

 Kpovidao diaKrope. Arat. Phen. 522 Zrjvbs piyas ayyeXos. Schol. Find. 

 I. v. 53 SioTrojLiTro? alfTos. See also Porphyr. De Abstin. iii. 5 opvifas rots 

 dvdpwTTOis ftcri Krjpvues aXXoi aXXwi/ df&v, Albs fiev aerdy, K. T. X. Nonn. 

 Dionys. xxiv. I2O aieroy ^-yt/idj/eue di rjepos avrirvrros Zevs. Ar. Av. 1248 

 (Aesch. fr. Niob.) irvptyopoicriv aierois. Bianor in Gk. Anth. ii. 143 ^epo- 

 divrjs aleroS) oiavav povvos enovpavios. Cf. Eurip. fr. 866 avrns p,ev drjp 



