10 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



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I. 4 (cf. Keller, op. c. pp. 240, 435). On the sceptre of Zeus at Olympia, 

 Paus. v. II. i (copied on a late coin of Elis) ; and at Megalopolis, id. 

 viii. 31. 4 (cf. Find. P. i. 6 evSei ava O-KUTTTO) AIOS aleros, Soph. fr. 766 

 o-Kr)7TTot3d[jLa>v ahros, Schol. in Ar. Av. 510); on pillars before the altar 

 of Zeus Lycaeus, in Arcadia, id. viii. 38. 5 ; on the Omphalos at Delphi 

 (cf. Soph. O. T. 480), Pind. P. iv. I xpuo-ecov Atos alrjT&v ndptdpos (simi- 

 larly on coins of Cyzicus). Cf. Plut. de Orac. i. 409 derovs rtvas, r) 



KVKVOVS, nv6o\oyov<riv OTTO T&V oLKpoiV Trjs yrjS firl TO fj.6(rov <pepop.vovs els 

 ravTo crvfjiireo-flv Uv6oi nepl TOV Ka\. o/KpaXoi/. The great mechanical 

 Eagle with outspread wings on the altar at Olympia, Paus. vi. 20. 12. 

 On the shield of Aristomenes at Messene, Paus. iv. 16. 7 (cf. account 

 of shield in Eurip. fr. Meleag. iv, and on the shield of Aeacus, Zrji>a 

 vodov, (ro(pov opviv, Nonn. xiii. 214). For references to coins, v. supra, 

 passim. 



The gable of a temple was called deros, Ar. Av. mo, or ae'ra^a, 

 Suid. Cf. Eur. fr. Hypsip. tdov irpbs alQep e^a/LuXA^o-ai Kopais, ypair- 

 TOVS fv atTol<Ti 7rpoa-/3Xe7ra>i/ rvnovs : Pind. Ol. xiii. 21 ris yap . . . rj 6t<av 

 vaoiviv olavoiv /SatriXea didvpov eircBrjKe ; cf. Pind. fr. 53, ap. Paus. x. 5. 12, 

 and Bergk's note ; Tacit. H. iii. 71 ; Bekker Anecd. p. 348. 3 aeroi) 

 /Mi/zemu (TX^JP-CL dnoreraKOTos ra -nrepd : for other references see Blaydes, 

 in Ar. Av. 1106. Compare the Sacred Hawk or Eagle, or the winged 

 solar disc, on Egyptian gables, &c., and on Mithraic monuments. 

 See Bronsted, Voy. en Grece, ii. 154; Welcker, Alte Denkmaler, i. 3. 

 A conventional ornament on the gable even of modern buildings in 

 the Greek style, still represents the degenerate emblem of the Eagle's 

 wing. 



See also, besides the special references to the other Eagle-names 

 enumerated above, kindred mythological references s. vv. yu'ij/, Upa, 



*AZEINOl', also d^effijUKH' KVKVOI, rats nrepv^iv dno\ap,[3dvovTfs df'pn, Hesych. 



'AHAQ'N, TJ [6 a., Anth. Pal. vii. 44, Eust. 376. 24 ; for grammatical forms, 

 see Bergk. Philol. xxii. p. 10, Ahrens in Kuhn's Zeitschr. iii. p. 81, c.] 

 Also drj&ovls (Eur. Rhes. 550, Theocr. viii. 38, freq. in Gk. Anthol., c.), 

 ddovis (Theocr., Mosch.), dfirjdav = nf^Scoj/, Hesych., and a^Sco, Soph. 

 Aj. 628. Dim. drjdovidevs, Theocr. xv. 121. Rt. vad^ to sing, a<-i'Sa>, &c. 



The Nightingale, Motacilla luscinia, L., Daulias luscinia, auctt. 



Mod. Gk. drj86vi, applied to various Warblers. 



Od. xix. 518 Uavdapeov Kovprj ^Xcop^ls drjduv. [German commentators, 

 translating ^Xwpjyi'y green, have made many needless conjectures as 

 to some other bird being here alluded to ; cf. Groshans, p. 5 ; Buchholz, 

 pp. 123-125. On the word xXwpiji'y see also G. E. Marindin and 

 W. W. Fowler, Class. Rev. 1890, pp. 50, 231, and in particular Steph. 



