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ANAfKHI (continued}. 



Onka, which is said to be identical with Sirrmrgh, the magical 

 bird of the Persians, and which is believed further to come into 

 relation with Athene 'Oy/ca; cf. Von Hammer-Purgstall, Wien. 

 Jahrb. d. Lit. xcvii. 126, Creuzer, Symb. iv. 397, Boch. Hieroz. 

 ii. 812, 852. Vide s. v. OK^OS. 



"AN00I. An unknown small bird. The name does not occur in 

 Mod. Gk., and like so many of the bird-names mentioned in a 

 non-scientific or fabulous sense, is probably an exotic. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opvis a-KcoX^Ko^a-yos-, /neye$o? orrov (Tiria. 

 ix. I,6o9b ITTTTW TToXejmos' ccXavjwi yap 6 ITTTTOS CK rrjs vop^s, noav yap 

 6 avQos. eirdpyefjios 8' earl KCU OVK ova)7rds' /Lu/ielrai yap rou ITTTTOU 

 pwvrjv, Ka\ (pojSel e7rt7rerd/zei/o? /cat, ee\avvei, orav 8e Xa/Sfl, KreivfL avrov. 

 ' 6 uvBos napa Trorapov Kal eX??, \poav S' e\i KaXrjv KOL (vjBioTos ecrrt. 

 IX. I, 6 10 and 12, 615 hostile to duavQis and a'iyidos' alyidov Kal avQov alpa. 

 ov crvp/jiiyvvTai a\\r]\ois i cf. Plin. x. 74 (95). With the above fabulous 

 account, cf. Ael. H. A. V. 48, vi. 19 Ididfct Se rats pi^o-fa-i r<av TOIOVTVV 

 6',Te (ivOos KaXov/JLevos . . . Kai 6 /ueV civOos UTTOKptVerat xpep-eTicrpa "rnrov. 



Also Plin. x. (47) 52 ; see also Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. 7, where 

 Anthus is a son of Autonous and Hippodameia, killed by his father's 

 horses, and metamorphosed into the bird &v6os. In Phile 705 it is the 

 fish dvOias that is said to be hostile to the horse. 



Note. As indicative of the mythical, fabulous, and probably exotic 

 element in the above, compare the accounts of ai>0os and 

 (? aK-av6-is), the former (TKa>\r]K.o(pdyos, ei>/3i'oro?, xpoav KaX 

 noXefjiios '. the latter aKavQo(pdyos, KctKo/3io?, KaKo^poos, oj/o> TroXe/xtos, &C. : 

 aKavdis and a"yi(v)0os are perhaps two corruptions of the same word. 

 Though the bird cannot be identified, and though it is more than 

 doubtful whether it was ever known to the Greeks, yet Sundevall's 

 identification of avQos as the Yellow Wagtail, Motacilla flava, L., 

 deserves to be recorded. This hypothetical identification is based 

 on the brilliant colour (which according to v. d. Miihle is more brilliant 

 in Greece even than in N. Europe) and on the localities frequented. 

 The Yellow Wagtail frequently consorts with the cattle at pasture, 

 feeding on flies ; it may indeed have become associated with the above 

 fable, the origin of which, however, is doubtless more deep-seated and 

 obscure. 



'ANOnAfA. A bird associated with Athene, possibly the Wight- Heron. 



Od. i. 320 Otrcfty yXavKfoiris 'A^i/r;, opi/ty 8' o>? dvoTram fiieVraro. For 

 various explanations and Scholia, see Steph. Thes. (ed. 1821), Lidd. 

 and Sc., c. According to Rumpf, De aedibus Homericis, ii. p. 32, 

 Giessen, 1857, Netolicka, Naturh. aus Horn. p. n, Buchholz, Horn. 



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