13 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AHAflN (continued}. 



dXX' cbrX?)i>, Kal TO xp5)p.a p.Ta(3d\\ei Kal ev ye 'iraXta TO ovoua fTfpov 

 KaXemu nepl rrjv &pav ravTyv. (paiverai S* ov rroXvv \povov' <^>a>XeZ yap 

 (cf. Ael. xii. 28 ; Plin. N. H. x. 29, Clem. Alex. Paedag. x) : the above 

 excerpt is very obscure and mystical; with the verb dao-vvTjTai cf. 

 Etym. M. s.v. AaiAfr, also Aesch. fr. 27 (tbi tit.}, and Paus. x. 4, 7. 

 Hesiod, ap. Ael. V. H. xii. 2O rrjv dr)86va fj.6vr)v opvldav dpoipelv VTTVOV 

 Kal did Tf\ovs dypvrrvelv. Ael. H. A. i. 43 drjdwv opviQav Xi-yupomm;, 

 Xeyouo-i Se Kai ra Kpea avTrjs es dypvnviav \vaiTe\elv : cf. ib. xii. 2O, Phile 

 xviii. Ael. iii. 40 Kadeipypcvr) ev oiKio-Kco Sdrjs aTre^erai, ml d/JLVverai TOV 

 opvidodfjpav vnep rijs dov^eias ry <na>Trfj' ovnep ovv ol avdpwiroi Trerrfipafj-evoi, 

 rag p.tv fjdr) Trpe&PvTepas p-fdidcri, <nrov8dov(n 8e 6r]pav ra veorria. Ib. V. 

 38 V TCUS eprjfjiiais orav a8rj Trpbs eavTrjv, anXovv TO /LteXo?* orav de dXaJ 

 Kal T>V aKov6vTo>v pr} SiafnapTavr), noiKiXa re dvapeXireiv Kal raKepws eXi'rreii' 

 TO /ueXoy. Its mode of capture, Dion. De Avib. iii. 13. On captive 

 Nightingales, see also Nemesian, Eel. ii, De Luscinia. A white or 

 albino specimen, Plin. 1. c. 



The locus classicus for the Nightingale's song is Plin. x. (29) 43, 

 cf. Ar. Av. 209 ; see also Dion. De Avib. i. 20, Phile xviii, &c. 



Pausan. ix. 30. 6 XeyouoH de ol QpaKes, oo~ai T&V drjbovtov e%ovo~i veoo~ffias 

 Trl TCO Tci0o) ToO 'Op^eoff, TavTas fjdiov Kal p.e'i6t> n qdeiv. Cf. Antig. Hist. 

 Mirab. 5, Myrsili Methymn. fr. 8 (vol. iv. p. 459, Miiller). 



The Nightingale which sang over the infant Stesichorus, as a presage 

 of poetry, Plin. x. 43 (29). The transmigration of Thamyras (? Thammuz), 

 Plato, Rep. x. 620. 



On talking Nightingales, Plin. N. H. x. 59 (42). 



The lay of the loom, KcpKida 8' evrroirjTov, drjSova rav eV cpMois, Antip. 

 Sid. xxii, Gk. Anthol. ii. n, cf. id. xxvi ; cf. Ar. Ran. 1316. 



The Cricket is called rfjv Nu/^e'coi/ Trapodlnv dr)86va, Gk. Anthol. 

 iv. 206. 



Ulysses, for his melancholy tale, is Movo-cof aqo>i/, Eur. Palamed. 

 viii ; a poet is Movo-da>v drjdovts, Anthol. Pal. vii. 414 (cf. Movo-dv opvix*s, 

 Theocr. vii. 47) ; a bad poet is drjdovoiv fjrriaXos (enough to give a Night- 

 ingale the shivers), Phryn. Com. Inc. i. 



The Sirens are called aprrvioyovvoi a^Sdves, Lye. 653. 



Proverb and Fable. ouS' oo~ov dr]86ves vTrvvovaiv, Suid. VTTVOS dr)86- 

 veios, Nicoch. Inc. 3 (ii. 846, Mem.), cf. Nonn. Dionys. v. 411 ofj.fj.aaLv 

 dpird^avres drjboviov (s. otdonov) irrepov VTTVOV. rol O-K>TTS a;Soo-i yapv- 

 craij/ro, Theocr. i. 136, cf. Gk. Anthol. (Jac.) iv. p. 218, also Theocr. v. 

 136 TTOT' dr)6va Kiao-as pio~8evl Luc. Pise. 37 BO.TTOV av yv-^r drjdovas 



Fable of the Hawk and tne Nightingale, Hes. Op. et D. 203, cf. 

 Aes. Fab. 9, Plut. Mor. 1586. The Nightingale and the Swallow, 



