42 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



TEPANOI (continued]. 



Arist. H.A. iii. 1 2, 5 19, cf. De Gen. v. 5, 785, Plin. x. 42 (29), Solin. c. 10. Its 

 noisy cry, Arist. De Acoust. 800 ; frag. 241, p. 152 a : cf. II. iii. 3, Antip. 

 Sidon. xvii, O. Smyrn. xiii. 104, Ar. Av. 710, Virg. Aen. x. 265, Mart. 

 Ep. xxx ; Lucret. iv. 182 ; in Carm. De Philom. grus gruit ; &c. With 

 ep. $&>AoK<)7ror, Cratin. 2. 20. 



A smaller species in the Balearic Islands, called Vtpio, Plin. x. 

 49 (69). 



Gregarious habits: dyeXatoi/, H. A. i. i, 488, iv. 12, 597 b; irXirtJc6i/ 

 Ka\ v(f> fjytfjiovi, i. i, 488. Pugnacity : fights with the eagle, II. xv. 692, 

 Q. Smyrn. xiii. 104, Ael. iii. 13; and with its own kind, H. A. ix. 12, 

 615 b. Its flight is lofty, ovpuvodi TT/JO, II. iii. 3; cf. Hes. Op. 446 euf 

 av yepuvov <pa>vr)v eiraKovcrr]s,' t Y\^odtv CK vecptwv eviaixria KeK\r]yvirjs (with 

 which cf. Pind. Nem. vii ei TL irepnv dcpdels dveKpnyov) ; Aes. Fab. 397 

 (ifTTpw eyyvs tWa/uat, Arist. H. A. ix. io, 614 b, Avian. Fab. xv Ast 

 ego deformi sublimis in aera penna, Proxima sideribus numinibusque 

 feror ; Ael. iii. 14, Plin. x. 23, Isidor. Origin, xii. 7 ; see also Horap. 

 ii. 98, where a watcher of the stars is said to be symbolized in Egypt 



as a crane, v\l/rj\a)S yap iravv in-rurai, Iva Oeda-rjTai ra ve(f)rj, fj.rj apa X l P l *&]> 



Iva eV r)(n>xLq diapery : flies against the wind, Arist. H. A. viii. 13, 597. 

 Lays two eggs, ib. ix. 12, 615 b ; ov o-vyKadeio-rjs T^S 0/jXei'as e 



TO appev, ib. v. 2, 539 b. 



Migrations. Arist. H. A. viii. 12, 597 eKToni&vo-iv e< TWV 

 Ti-fStW fls ra e\rj TCI <'iv<0 T?JS Aiyvtrrov (cf. Herod, ii. 22). A fuller account, 

 how they alight before foul weather, how they have in front a leader, at 

 TOVS enio-vpiTTovras v rots eV^arots 1 : how when sleeping they stand first on 

 one leg and then on the other : how while they rest the leader keeps watch, 

 Arist. H.A. ix. io, 614 b: cf. frag. 241, 1522 a, Antig. H. Mirab. 46; 

 and how their discipline taught men the rules of government, Ael. iii. 14. 

 Cf. in particular Eur. Hel. 1478 At/3ue$- ol<avo\ oroXade? Spftpov \irrov(rai 

 %ip.epiov viacrovTai Trpecr/Surara (rvpiyyt Trei^o/Ltej/ai 7roip.cvos, &C. How they 

 fly aloft in the form of a triangle, with the old in front, the young in the 

 middle, Ael. iii. 13, Plut. De Sol. Anim. Mor. 967 C, 979 A, Dion. De 

 Av. ii. 17, iii. n. The distance they traverse, crossing the Euxine 

 between the promontories of Criumetopon and Carambis, Plin. x. 30 : 

 from Thrace to the river Hebrus, Ael. ii. i ; cf. Diog. Perieg. 155 ai' 

 T a/i(a> gvvia<Tiv evavTiai, ov fiev eovvat eyyvdev, dXX' oaov 6\<as eVt rpirov 

 dvvfrcrrj. The migration from Thrace takes place TOV Mai/iax- 

 , Arist. H. A. viii. 12 ; (pdwoTrapov fjdrj fjiea-ovvros, Ael. iii. 13. 



The flock was supposed to represent a A or other letters ; cf. Philostr. 

 Heroic, xi. 4, p. 7IO ai yepavoi p.aprvpovTai rols 'A^aioiy ort avrai -ypdjMjuara 

 fvpov: cf. Claudian. De B. Gild. 477 ordinibus variis per nubila texitur 

 ales Littera, pennarumque notis inscribitur aer ; Lucan v. 712, Martial 

 ix. 14, xiii. 75, &c., &c. See also Bochart, Hieroz. ii. p. 78, G. J. Voss, 



