AI0YIA AKMfcN 19 



AKAN0II (continued}. 



is in the main mythical : cf. a^Oos. Mod. Gk. a-KaBi, the Siskin, is 

 perhaps akin (Bike'las). 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opvis aKavBotpdyos' enl aKavBav vep-erat. Ib. 

 ix. I ova> Kal avBco Kal alyida iroXepios [cf. Antig. Hist. Mirab. 106 (114), 

 Plin. x. 74 (95)], ix. 17 KUKO^LOS Kal KaKoxpoof, (puvrjv /ueWoi \iyvpav 

 e^ovo-a. Agath. xxv. 5 in Gk. Anthol. iv. p. 13 \iyvpov /So/i/SeCo-ii/ aKavdidfs. 

 Theocr. 7. 141 : the Scholia in Theocr. make a<avdis synonymous with 

 dicav0v\\is and TroiKiXis. Virg. Georg. iii. 338 littoraque halcyonem 

 resonant, et acanthida [#/. acalanthida] dumi ; cf. Serv. in Virg. alii 

 lusciniam esse volunt, alii vero carduelem, quae spinis et carduis 

 pascitur. 



In Anton. Lib. Met. vii, the daughter of Autonous and Hippo- 

 damea is called 'Anai/Bis and 'A.KavQv\\is indifferently ; note also that 

 her mother was metamorphosed into Kopv86s. Hesych. and Aelian 

 have also azavBos. (Cf. Anton. Lib. 1. c.) Vide s. v. 



'AKANGYAAI'I (in some MSS. cueavBc^is). Probably the Goldfinch, 

 Fringilla carduelis, L. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 TO peycOos oarov KvnroXoyos. Ib. ix. 13, 6l6 rexvi- 

 Koi)S 5e K.CU fj TTJS aK.av6v\\i8os cx l veomd' TreVXcKrai yap axrirep (rcpalpa \ivrj, 

 e^oucra TTJV clfrdvcriv p.iKpdv I cf. Plin. x. 33 (50). Is hostile to Kopv8a\6s, 



Ael. iv. 5, Phile, De An. Pr. 683. Mentioned also Eubul. fr. iii. 268, 

 ap. Athen. ii. p. 65, Plut. ii. 537 B, and by Hesych. as vrpovBov yevos. 



The description in Arist. H. A. ix. 13 has suggested to scientific com- 

 mentators (Sundevall, p. 116, &c.) the nest of the Long-tailed or Pendu- 

 line Tits, Aegithalus caudatus or pendulinus (cf. alyi6a\os) or Bearded 

 Tit, Calamophilus biarmicus ; but the neat round nest of the Goldfinch 

 would suit the description well enough. The alternative form aitavBaKis 

 is evidently identical with aKoKavQis, and so supports the identity of the 

 bird with aKavOis, while its identity with TroiKiX/s-, also asserted by the 

 Schol. in Theocr., is strengthened by the statements of hostility to 

 Kopvba\6s in the case of both these birds. The latter statement is, of 

 course, fabulous or mystical. In identifying dKavdvXXis with the Gold- 

 finch, I only mean that such an identification was probably adopted by 

 Aristotle : what d/caj/0vXXi's, civBos, &c. originally meant is unknown. 

 See also cuyiSaXos, akdos. 



'A[K]KAAANirP- aKavBvXXis, Trapa Ad<axnv, Hesych. [On various read- 

 ings cf. Valkenaer, Adon. p. 2*78 ; Ahr. Dor. ii. 69.] 



"AKMQN- -yeW deroC, Hesych. Cf. Opp. Cyneg. iii. 326, where, though 

 amoves are cited as wolves, the description closely resembles that 

 of the mystical eagles in Aesch. Ag. 111-120. 



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