KlfKAOI KIPKOI 83 



KINNYPl'AEI' TO. fJUKpa opviddpia, Hesych. (Perhaps akin to Kti>vpop,ai.) 

 KINY'TIAOr xapaSpid?, Hesych. A very doubtful word. 



Kl'PlI* \i>xvos, opveov, r) *A.do)Vis AaKuves, Hesych. Also Kippis' etSos 

 lepaKos. o/zoiW 8e Xe-yerai Trapa Kvrrpiois Kippis 6 "Adavis, napa AaKaxri 



Se, 6 \vxos, Et. M. Cf. Kvpis, 6 "AScom, Hesych. These refer- 

 ences are important in connexion with the solar symbolism 

 underlying the stones of Ciris, KrjpvXos, &c. ; cf. the version of the 

 Ciris-myth, s. v. <ippis (s. Kippis), Dion. De Avib. ii. 14. 



Kl'PKH. A poetic or mystical bird-name ; different from, and hostile 



tO, KlpKOS. 



Ael. iv. 5 aeiprjv, /ifXiWqs ovopa, rrpos KipKrjv expo's. KipKrj 8e frpos 

 KipKov, ov r<$ yevei povov, dXXa xai rfj (pvcrei dicxpepovra Trefpapao-Oov. Cf. 

 ib. iv. 58. 



Kl'PKOI. A poetic and mystical name for a Hawk : the sacred 

 Hawk of Apollo ; in the main an astronomical, perhaps solar, 

 emblem. In Mod. Gk. KipKivefr is said to be a name for the 

 Kestrel (Heldr.), vide s. v. KYxpVs- 



In Homer, the bird of Apollo, 8fibs opvis, 'ATroXXwi/oy ra^vs ayycXos, 

 Od. xv. 525 ; an emblem of swiftness, eXa^pdraros- TrerfT/j/oov, II. xxii. 139, 

 Od. xiii. 87 ; cf. Apoll. Rh. ii. 935, Opp. Cyn. i. 282 j; nipKos ravafjan 

 Tivaa-a-ofjifvos irrepvyeuviv : usually as an enemy of the Dove, II. xxii. 

 140 (cf. iprjg, xxi. 493), Od. xv. 526, cf. Apoll. Rh. i. 1049 TJVTC KipKovs \ 

 eo/cvTrcTa? ayeXrjdov diroTpeaaaxri rreXeiai : ib. iii. 543? S^ 1 ) lv * 4&6 I hostile 

 to ^ap, KoXoto?, and other small birds, II. xvii. 757. Frequent in Aesch., 

 usually, as in Homer, an enemy of the Dove ; Suppl. 223 eV/x6y tos 

 TTfXeiaScov te(r$e, KipKoav T>V Ofj-onTepav (^)d/3w, Pr. V. 857 Ki'pccoi TreXeiaii' 

 ov naKpav XeXei/z/zeVoi (note in this passage the association with Egyptian 

 *Ena<pos) ; mentioned in connexion with the Tereus-myth, as metamor- 

 phosing with eVo^, fr. 32, ap. Arist. H. A. ix. 49 b CTTOX^ ... 6s rjpi p.ev 

 (paivovTi diaird\\i nrepov \ Kipnov XcTrdpyou : as a portent, pursuing an 

 eagle, TrpoV eoxdpav ^oi^ou, Pers. 205 ; cf. Suppl. 60 OTTO ras Trjpetas 

 prjTidos oiKrpas dXd^ov, fctp/cj/Xdrov T' drjdovos. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620 rpiros TWV IcpaKatv [r<3 Kpdret]; ib. ix. I. 609 b 

 dXo>7r/a 7roXejutos, cf. Ael. v. 48, Phile, 704, Wotton, De Diff. Anim. 

 vii, 143, &c. In Plin. x. 8 circos occurs as an alternative reading for 

 aegithus\ cf. circus as the name of a gem, similis accipitri, Piin. 

 xxxvii. 10. 



Mentioned as hostile to the Dove also in Ael. iii. 46, v. 50 at 8 Trepi- 



(TTfpal Trpos aercov fj.(v K\ayyr)V Kal yvir&v flappov&i, KipKcoz/ de KOI dXtaera)^ 

 OVKCTI : to rpvy&v and to Kopa)vrj, ib. vi. 45 ; to KIPKTJ, ib. iv. 5> 5^ 5 anc ^ 

 to mice, Batrach. 49. How it places chicory (niKpis) in its nest as 

 a charm, Ael. i. 35, Phile, 722, or wild lettuce, aypia dpidaKivrj, Geopon. 



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