46 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



PAAYE (continued}. 



The War of the Owls and Crows : noXepia y\avg, Kopwvrj, o 



Arist. H. A. IX. I, 609 vvKT&p enifiov\evei rols wots rrjs Kopcoi/jyy, K. T. X. 



Ael. iii. 9, Antig. Mirab. 57 (62), Plut. Od. et Inv. iv (Mor. 537 C). 

 The story is oriental, and is one of the chief tales in the Mahabharata. 

 Cf. Indian Antiq. March, 1882, p. 87; also, 'The Night of Slaughter,' 

 by Sir Ed. Arnold. The account in Julian. Imp. Orat. iv. 149 suggests 

 that the story is simply a parable of the Sun and Moon ; vide infra. 

 See also S. V. KOpcoyr). Cf. Prov. ii\\o yXavt-, aXXo Kopatvi] (pdeyyercn.' 

 crrl Twv a\\r]\ois prj o-up.<poai>oiWa>i>, Suid. 



Milks the ewes like a goatsucker : uses a bat's heart to keep away 

 . ants from its nestlings, Dion. De Avib. i. 15. 



Sacred to Demeter, Porph. De Abst. iii. 5. 



No Owls in Crete. Ael. v. 2, xvii. 10, Arist. De Mirab. 124 (130), 

 83 (84), Plin. x. 29 (41). 



Fables of the very wise Owl, Acs. 105, 106, from Dio Chrysost. xii, 

 Ixxii. A fabled metamorphosis, Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. 10 ; s. v. |3ua : 

 see also Boios ap. Ant. Lib. 15. 



The allusion to the Owl in Ar. Av. 358 is unexplained: it contains 

 some obscure reference to the sacred \vrpn and probably to the feast 

 of the gvrpoi. 



yXau can scarcely be said to be a generic term, except in the sense 

 that the Little Owl, as the commonest species, is taken as typical 

 of the rest. It is still extremely common about Athens (cf. Ar. Av. 301 

 y\avK els 'A^ray, cf. Antiph. 3, 96 (Meineke), Lucian, Nigr. I, Diog. L., 

 Vit. Plat., Cic. ad Quint, ii. 16, &c. ; Propert. ii. 20, 5 nocturna 

 volucris funesta querela, Attica), as indeed it is, in one or other of its 

 local forms, all round the Levant. It is the bird of Athene (cf. Ar. Av. 

 516, Eq. 1092, c., &c.), doubtless in her primitive character of the 

 Goddess of Night ; the epithet yXavKooTns- is quite obscure, but I fancy 

 we have it used in a very ancient sense when applied to the moon, e. g. 

 Eur. fr. (ap. Schol. Ap. Rhod. i. 1280) y\avi(>nis re o-rpe<percu p.r)vr) : cf. 

 Emped. ap. Plut. ii. 934 C ; cf. also yXauxca, a name for the Moon, 

 Schol. Find. Ol. vi. 76 (cit. Fick, Beitr. Indog. Spr. xx, p. 156, 1894). 

 On Athene as a moon-goddess, cf. Porph. ap. Euseb. P. E. iii. n; 

 Creuzer, Symb. iii. 380, &c. It was represented on Athenian coins 

 (yXavKes AaupiomKm, Ar. Av. no6, Schol. in Ar. Eq. 1091, Plut. i. 442, 

 Philochori fr. p. 83, Suid., Hesych.), and is still the city's badge. 

 On a very ancient colossal Owl from the Parthenon, see Friederichs, 

 Bausteine, p. 22 J cf. Hesych. y\av ev TrdXei' Trnpot/iia, dvaKflrui yap VTTO 

 3?ai8pov ev rf) dffpoTroXei. The owl of Athene is always a hornless, and 

 never a horned or eared species (cf. Blumenbach, Sp. Hist. Nat. Ant. 

 p. 20, Gottingen, 1808). 



A dance called yXai), Athen. xiv. 629 f. ; also a/con//-, q, v. 



