AAIAETOI AAKYflN 29 



AAKYQN (continued]. 



Gk., -^apo(f)dyos, also (Heldr.) o-apde\o(pdyos, /MTTtpftTriXt rrjs QaXdao-rj?, 

 and (in Acarnania) /3ao-tXo7roCXi. 



First mentioned in Simon. fr.i2 (ap. Arist. H. A. v. 8, 542 b, Poet. Lyr. 

 Gr., Bergk p. 874, vide infra) ; Aleman 26 (12), ap. Antig. Mirab. 27 ; 

 and Ibycus fr. 8 (13) d\Kv6vfs Tawo-iTTTepoi. 



Description. Arist. H. A. ix. 14, 6l6 17 8' d\Kv<vv eVn p,ev ov TroXXeS 

 peifov o-Tpovdov, TO 8e XP^P a * a ' Kvavovv e^et Kat ^Xwpoi/ KOI vTron6p(pvpov' 

 fjLfj.iyfievu>s 8e TOIOVTOV TO ff&fJia TTCLV Kat at TTTepvyfs KOI ra ?repi TOV Tpd^rj\ov t 

 ov \<p\s eKdo-TOV TWV xpa/jbaTcov' TO 8e pvy^os wd^Xcopoi/ jj.ev, /uaKp6i> 

 8e /cat XeTrrof. viii. 3, 593 b TO T>V d\Kvova)i> 8e yevos ndpvSpov ecrriv' 

 8' CIVTUV oi/ra dvo eldrj. KO\ f] p.ev (pOeyyerai, K.adidvovo-a eVi TO>V 

 f) 8' a(poivos' eorrt 8' avr^ p-dfav' TO 8c vwrov d/jLCpoTepai KVO.VOVV 

 [Cf. Plin. x. 47. Two species occur in Greece, A. (Ceryle) 

 rudis, L., the Spotted Kingfisher (Mod. Gk. aWpoj> tyapocpdyor, v. d. 

 Miihle), principally near the coast, and A. ispida, the Common King- 

 fisher. Sundevall points out that A. rudis has not TO VWTOV KVOVOVV, 

 and suggests A. smyrnensis, which does not now occur in Greece 

 (Kriiper) but in Asia Minor. Neither of these birds can sing, any more 

 than the common Kingfisher, and the attempt is hopeless to identify the 

 second Aristotelian species with either. The whole matter is confused 

 and mystical.] 



On the ' song' of the Halcyon, cf. Tymnes ii (Gk. Anthol. i. p. 256) 

 o> napop-otov aXxvoariv TOV o~ov (pdoyyov lo~(H(rdp.evov '. Pindar fr. 62 (34) a P 

 Schol. Apoll. Rhod. i. IO86 (q. v.) ev\6ya>s 8e oa-ffav tirre TTJV a\Kvovos 

 (fxovfjv : cf. Dion. De Avib. ii. 7 TQ>V d\Kv6va>v 8' ov< av ftrrot Tty els (ptavrjv 

 opvfov fjdtov. Its plaintive and melancholy note ; Eur. I. in T. 1089 opvts, 

 a Trapa TTCTpivas, TTOVTOV 8etpd8aff, d\Kv<av } eXeyov OITOV deideis '. imitated 

 Ar. Ran. 1309 d\Kvovcs al Trap' devdois daXdo-OTjs Kv/j.aai o-Tco/xuXXfrf. Cf. 

 II. ix. 563 /-tJjTJjp J A\KVOVOS Tro\viTvdeos OITOV fx ov(Ta ' Mosch. iii. 40 

 *A.\Kv6vos 8' ov TOCTO-OV eV a\yeo~iv ta^e K^v^. Opp. Halieut. i. 424 

 a TC (pv\a a\Kv6va>v. Epigr. in Marm. Oxon. iii. p. in (Ixxi) 

 8e f] dvcTTrjvos oftvpfTai old TIS O.KTO.IS 'AXxvovt's, yoepoils 8aKpvo~i 

 fj.vp6p.eva. See also Lucian in Alcyone, Philostr. Imagg. 362 K, Plut. 

 Utr. Anim., Ov. Met. xi, Trist. v. i. 60, Her. xviii. 81, &c., &c.; cf. 

 also Eumath. De Hysm. et H. L. x. p. 448 TTJV yXa>TTai> d\Kv6ves TTO\V- 



ircvOeo~T*pai) drjftoves QprjvrjTiKatTfpai, avTrjs NiojS^s 1 fj.i/j.ovfjifva.1 TO TroXuSa/tpti, 



Trpoy 6pr)vov eplfovvai. According to the Scholia in Ar. Aves, Horn. II. ix, 

 Theocr. Id. vii eOpfjvei T>V aiwv avTrjs ev TT) 0a\do~o-T] KXap-evoiV. 



How the females carry the old males on their backs, Ael. vii. 17 ; cf. 

 Plut. Utr. Anim., Antig. Hist. Mirab. 27. Cf. also Aleman (ap. Antig. 1. c.) 

 /SaXe 817, (3d\ KqpvXos f'irjv, os T' eVt KV/JLCITOS avdos a/u,' akKvoveao-i TTOT/Jrai I 

 imitated in Ar. Av. 251 o>j> T' eirl TTOVTIOV otS/xa ^aXao-o-^y (pv\a /xeT* 



d\KVOVO~O i l TTOTCLTai. 



