30 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AAKYHN (continued}. 



Beloved of the Sea-nymphs, Theocr. vii. 59, cf. Virg. Georg. i. 399. 



Associated with Pallas, Antip. Sidon. xxvi, Gk. Anth. ii. p. 12 t<rra>i/ 

 IlaXXdSos d\Kv6va (the shuttle, from its swift flash of colour) : with Hera, 

 Pindar fr. 1. c. ' 



With ep. govOos, Mnasalc. viii (Gk. Anthol. i. p. 124), [vide s. v. iTrn-a- 

 Xe/crpvcoj/]. 



The Nest. Arist. H. A. v. 8, 542 b riWei nepl Tporras TCLS x l l i P lvas ' 

 816 Kai KaXovvTai orav ei>8ieii/ai -yeVooj/rat at rpoTrat, d\KvovL8es qpepai e7rra 

 [lev Trpo rpoTraij', eWa fie fierd rpon-d?, KaBdnep KOI St/ican'St;? evoiiffW, 

 "a>y onoTav xei/nepioi/ Kara fj.rjva TrivvaKr) Zeus Jj^ara reo-(rapaKaieKa, Xa0di/e/zdt> 

 re' fjnv &pav Ka\eovatv enixjdovioi, lepav iraidorpofpov noiKiXas d\Kvovos" 

 yivovrai 5' evSieii/at, oral/ crvuftfj various yiveo~dai ras rpoTrdf, rijs H\eid8os 

 /Sopeiou yfvoijievrjs. Xeyerai 5' eV eTrra /i^ fjnepais Troie'ia'Oai rrjv veorTidv, 

 ev 6e rats XoiTrals cVra f)p,epais TLKTCIV ra i/eorna KOI enrpefaiv. nepi p-ev 

 ovv TOVS evTctvda TOTTOVS OVK del <rvp.(3aivi yiveo-dai d\Kvovibas ypepas Trepl 

 ray rporrds, ev 8e r<u 2iKfXiK<B TreXdyfi o-^eSov act. TtWei 5' 17 aX/cuu)!/ rrcpt 

 TTCVTC wd. . . . irdvTuv &e a-navKararov Idflv aXxvoz/a ecrriV cr^fSoj/ -yap Trepi 

 KOI Tponns oparat p.6vov } KCU ev TOLS v<popfj.ois irpo^rov o<rov 

 TTfpl TO jr^-olov d(pavierai evOvs, 816 Kai Srjyo'i^opoy TOVTOV TOV 

 epl ain-f)?. (Schneider conjectures that this last refers 

 to an Argonautic legend, cf. Apoll. Rhod. i. 1085 and Schol.) The Nest 

 further described, ib. ix. 14, 6l6 Trapo/no/a rat? a(paipais rals tfaXarri'ats earl 

 /cat rats Ka\ovp.evais aXco'd^i/ai?, n\r]v TOV ^pco/aaro$'' TrjV 8e %p6av vnonvppov 

 e%ovo~iv } K. T. X. /cat KOTTTOVTI (lev (TtS^pto) o^ei ov Tci%v diaKoTTTeTai, a/za 

 8e KOTTTOVTI Kai rat? x e P"' dpavovTi ra^u Sta^pawcrat, &cnrep 17 dXoo-d^i/jy. . . . 

 6oKt 8e p-dXto-ra e*c reov aKavdwv TTJS fteXovrjs. A lengthy description in 

 Ael. H. A. ix. 17 : see also Dion. De Avib. ii. 7 ; Plin. x. (32) 47, (33) 49 ; 

 Plut. De Sol. Anim. xxxv; Acs. Fab. 29, &c. Cf. also Callim. xxxi (Gk. 

 Anthol. i. p. 219) o>? Trdpo? nW^rai voTeprjs eov d\Kvovo$. The descrip- 

 tion in Plutarch ends as follows : e/zoi Se TroXXaxts ISovri Kai Oiyovri, 

 Traptorarat \eyeiv Kai qfteiv ' A^Xa) b~r) Trore rotoi/ 'ATroXXcovo? napd yaw.' 



On the d\Kuota8es or dXKuo^eioi ^jxepat, f when birds of calm sit 

 brooding on the charmed wave,' see also Theocr. vii. 57 K&\Kv6ves orope- 

 o~evVTi TO. KVfiaTa TO.V Te 6d\ao~o~av } TOV re VOTOV TOV r* evpov. Apollonid. 

 xiii (Gk. Anthol. ii. p. I2l) et Kai ev aXwovvv fjfj.ao~i K\av(rop.eda, d\KVova>v, 

 als TTOVTOS del (TTripl^aTO KU/XO, vrjvep.ov. Ar. Av. I594> Schol. in Ar. 

 Ran. 1344, Ael. i. 36, Philoch. 180, Plut. Sol. Anim, p. 983, Quaest. 

 Grace, pp. 1809, 1810, Apoll. Rhod. i. 1086, Plin. x. (32) 47, xviii. (26) 

 62, xxxii. (8) 27, Aul. Cell. iii. 10, Sil. Ital. xiv. 275, Plaut. Poen. 145, 

 Casina, prol. 26, Diosc. iv. 136, Alciphr. 5. i, Lucian Hale. 2, Ovid Met. 

 xi. 745, Colurn. xi. 2, Dion. De Avib. ii. 7, Carm. De Philom. 383. On 

 the number of the Halcyon days, see, in addition to the above, Suidas, 

 according to whom Simonides made them eleven (v. supra), Dema- 



