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takes ttTTou? to be the Swift: Aubert and Wimmer (p. in) take it 

 to be the House Martin (Hirundo urbica L.). The name Trfrpo^eXiSoi/i 

 applies in Mod. Gk. both to H. rupestris and to the Swift (Heldreich). 



"APAKOI. An Etruscan word for a Hawk. apaKos' fe'pa, 



Hesych. Said to be a Lydian word, Jablonsk. in Steph. Thes. 



Cf. 



"APAMOI. A name for a Heron = epcofito'?, Hesych. 



'APno'nOYI, s. dpyiTTous. A Macedonian name for the Eagle, Hesych. 

 Perhaps a corruption of alyiiroty, or perhaps of apgxpos. 



'APHTIA'AEI "OPNI0EI. Fabulous birds, which shot forth their feathers 

 like arrows: doubtless an astronomical emblem. Apoll. Rhod. 

 ii. 1035-1052. Cf. King's Ant. Gems p. 330. 



'APNEYTH'P. [Cf. Lat. urinator, a diver, Sk. vdri, water (Curt.).] 

 Supposed to mean a diving bird, diver or grebe (Colymbus). 

 Perhaps only a professional diver. Cf. SUTTTT]?. 

 II. xvi. 742 dpvevTijpL toiK&s. See also II. xii. 385, Od. xii. 413. 



*APJ=I<I>OI. A Persian word for an Eagle, Hesych. (Pers. barges). Cf. 

 dpyioirous. 



"APflAIOI. An unknown or fabulous bird ; vide s. v. Spirt]. 



"APP1H. (Perhaps from rt. of dp7r-do>, L. rap-io.} An unknown or 

 fabulous bird. 



II. xix. 350 apTTfl el/ana ravvTrrepvyi, Xiyv(pa>i/a) (Eustath. <Sov $aXdcr<rioi>, 

 Xdpa> Tro\p.ovv). Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609-610 en ol ano rrjs daXdrTrjs 

 ^"col/res TroXe/iioi dXX^Xoi?, olov fipevdos Kal Xdpoy Kai aprn] . . . . 7ri(piy Kal 

 apiri) Kal IKTWOS (pi'Xoi. ix. 1 8, 617 TroXe/uio? 8e r/y apirrj f] (f>S>v{;, Kal yap 

 tKtivrj 6fjLoio(3ioTos. Ael. H. A. ii. 47 r] Se opeios aprrrj T&V opvlQ&v npcxr- 

 irfcrovcra rovs o(p6a\povs dfpapirdfci. Cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 4. Plin. 

 x ' 95 (74) Dissident harpe et triorches accipiter. Harpe et milvus 

 contra triorchem communibus inimicitiis. The wife and son of Cleinis 

 are metamorphosed into the birds apTrrj and aprraa-os : Boios ap. Anton. 

 Lib. Met. 20. According to Hesych., ap-nrj is Cretan for IKTLVOS. 



Places ivy, KiWo?, in its nest for a charm, Ael. i. 35, Phile 729, 

 Geopon. xv. i. 



The word is poetical. Dionysius (1. c.) refers to the Lammergeier. 

 Some mediaeval commentators (e. g. Gesner) take Harpe and Milvus 

 (IKTWOS) to be identical in Arist. and Plin. 11. cc., as does also Tzetzes, 

 Chiliad, v. 413 IKTWOS opj/is ris evnv, 6Wep KaXovpev apTrrjv, apTrdfav ra 



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