KOAOIOZ KOPAE 91 



KOAYMBII (continued}. 



Ar. Av. 304, Ach. 875, brought to market from Boeotia. Mentioned 

 among the water-birds in Arist. H. A. i. I, 487, viii. 3, 593 b; Alex. 

 Mynd. in Athen. ix. 395 d 77 p.iKpa KoXv/u,/3is 7rai/ra>i> Aa^um} TO>V evvSpcov, 

 pVTrapofjieXaiva rfjv XP oiav KOI TO pvyxos ov e^ei, {TKeVroi/ re (lect. dub.) ra 

 o/up.ara, ra Se TroXXckKaraSuerai. Dion. De Avib. ii. 12 roi? KoXvpfiois eo~T\v 

 del TO vrj\0~6ai <piXoi>, KOI ovS' ay VTTVOV X l *P lv % Tpofprjs eVi r>)i> yrjv eX$oiep, 

 K.r.A. : ib. iii. 24, capture of KoXvpfiis at night, with net and lantern. 

 The above passage from Alex. Mynd., so far as it is intelligible, is 

 a good description of the Little Grebe or Dabchick, Podiceps minor, L., 

 which is a common resident in Greece (Mod. Gk. /SourqKrdpa). In 

 Arist. De Part. iv. 12 we find a minute account of the Grebe's foot, but 

 without a name. 



According to Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. ix, one of the Emathides, 

 daughters of Pierus, was metamorphosed into the bird Ko\vp,pas. 



KO'MBA* Kopavrj, noXvpprjvioi, Hesych. 



KONTl'AOI- ddos opve'ov, ^ 6pri;, Hesych. It is possible that the word 

 may be connected with KoVros, and that it may relate to the game 

 of opTvyoKOTTta, or quail-tapping. 



KOPAKI'AI. Also KopaKiKos (synonymous according to Hesych.). 

 A Chough. Pyrrhocorax alpinus, the Alpine Chough, and Fregilus 

 graculus, the Cornish Chough ; both found in Greece, the latter 

 more rarely. Mod. Gk. KaXiaKovda in Attica, Kopuvo-n-ovXt in 

 Laconia (Heldr.). 



Arist. H. A. ix. 24, 617 b. A sort of KO\OLOS' oa-ov Kopo>j>?7, 

 pvy%os. Hesych. 6 p.e\as KoAoio'y, KOI Kopaicivos 6/ 



KO'PAE, a. The Raven. Corvus corax, L. Cf. Sk. kar-dvas, L. cor-vus t 

 Sw. krd-ka, O. N. hro-kr, A. S. hro-c, Eng. crow, rook, O. N. hra-fn, 

 Eng. raven : the same root in Kpo>, crepare, raucus, O. H. G. 

 hruofan, Ger. rufen, Eng. croak. Mod. Gk. Kopag, KopaKas, Kop- 

 Kopag (Erh.). Dim. Kopaicii'os, Ar. Eq. 1053 ; KopaicurKOs, Gloss. 



Not in Homer. Poet., frequent, with the idea of ravenous, carrion- 

 feeding, e.g. Aesch. Suppl. 751, Ag. 1473 ; Gk. Anthol. (Jac.) iv. 179 

 ayKei/jiai p.ya delnvov ap.Tpo{3iois Kopa.Kecro~t. Hence Prov. els KopaKas, Ar. 

 Vesp. 51, 852, Nub. 123, 133, 789, Pax 500, 1221, Thesmoph. 1226, &c., 

 Arist. fr. 454, 1552 b, Plut. ix. 415, Lucian, Alex. 46 (2, 552) ; frequent 

 also in the comic fragments. See also the long note of Photius ; cf. also 

 Antisthenes ap. D. L. vi. 1,4 Kpelrroj/ e'Xeye <add (prjaiv 'E/carcoj/ eV raty 

 Xpeiaiy, els KopaKas f) els KoXaKas eKTrecretj/' 01 pev yap vcKpovs, of 8e )i>Tas 



: cf. Pallad. 32, Gk. Anthol. iii. 121 p KOI X povov 



