26 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AAEKTPYflN (continued}. 



KOIVOS ' A.6r)vai<i)v aXeWoop, descriptive of a bombastic talker, Demadas 

 ap. Athen. iii. 99 D. 



fnTT) dXe/crwp dov\ov a>s K\ivas nrfpov, Phrynichus ap. Plut. Amator. 

 xviii (Mor. 762 F); whence Ar. Vesp. 1490 rfrfjcra-ei $pvvixos &s ns 



0\KT(i>p. 



With metaphorical epithet SiavXoSpofio?, 8ia yap TTJS av\ijs rpe\ei, 

 Artemid. iv. 24 ; cf. Ar. Av. 291. 



Fable of the Eagle which carried off the Cock crowing over his 

 victory, Aesop, Fab. 21. The Weasel and the argumentative Cock, 

 ib. 14. The Cock and Thieves, ib. 195. The Cock and Dog, as 

 wayfarers, ib. 225. The two Cocks and the Partridge, ib. 22. See also 

 Babrius and Aesop passim. 



Fable of the Weasel and the Hen ; us &rj KCIT evvoiav avTrjs vo<rov<rr]s, 

 ows ex f t) TrvvQavopevriv' KaXo>?, clnev, civ crv aTroor/js 1 , Plut. De Frat.Am. xix. 



How the plumage of the Cock outshines the raiment of Croesus in 

 all his glory, (pvcriKO) yap avQei KeKoo-prjrai KCU /xupi'w KGtXXioi/i, Solon ap. 

 Diog. L. i. 2. 4. 



Representations. The oldest Coins with the Cock are those of 

 Himera and Dardanus (Imhoof-Bl. and K. pi. v. 38-42) and of 

 Carystus (B. M. C., Central Greece, p. 100, pi. xviii), all of the early 

 fifth century. They recall the Indian Gallus Sonneratii (cf. J. P. Six, 

 in Imhoof-Bl. p. 35), or rather the Gallus ferrugineus or bankiva of 

 Northern India. Cf. also Blyth's note (Ibis, 1867, p. 157) on fowls 

 sculptured on the Lycian marbles (c. 600 B. C.). See also Conze, Ann. 

 de I'lnst, 1870, p. 280, on a Cock represented on an ancient relief of 

 Dionysus and Semele (?), B.C. 580-540. In regard to Himera, it is 

 noteworthy that Pindar's twelfth Olympian Ode, in which the Cock is 

 mentioned, was addressed to Ergoteles, an inhabitant of Himera (cf. 

 Buckton, N. and Q. (4) iii. 131). 



The Cock with the Lion is early and frequent on coins of Asia 

 Minor: with Athena on coins of Leucas, Corinth, Dardanus; also on 

 coins of Ithaca, Zacynthus, Argos, &c. 



On a statue of Athene, Paus. vi. 26 (v. supra); on a statue of 

 Apollo, to indicate sunrise, Plut. De Pyth. Orac. xii. 574 (Mor. 488. 30). 

 On the shield of Idomeneus, Paus. v. 25 (v. supra). 



See also s. vv. |3pY)T<Ss, TJIKCU'OS, KIKKOS, KoXoi<|>pu, KOTTOS, 

 , <re'pi<os, 



'AAIA'ETOZ s. dXiaieros. A Sea-eagle. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619 e^ovcrii/ av\eva re /j,eyav KCU TTO^VI/ Kal nrepa 

 Ka/iTruXa, ovpOTrvyiov 8e TrXaru" otKov&i de Trept BaXarrav KOI auras, dpna^ovTcs 

 de KCU ov dwd/j-evoi (pepctv TroXXaKis KcmKpe'poi/rcu els (Bvdov. viii. 3, 593 b 

 nepl rrjv 6d\arrav Siarpi'jSet KOI ra \ifJLvala Kojrrfi. [Here KoWet seems 



