92 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOPAH (continued}. 



ftceplfct, J XOITTOV T avTo Kopa /Sco/ioXd^oy re KoXa. With epithet 

 Eur. Andr. 862. 



Anatomical particulars. Arist. De Part. iv. I, 626 b TO pvyxos e^ei 

 lo~xvpbv KOL 07cX7pdV, TOV oTOfia^ou TO ?rp6ff TTJV Koi\iav Tiivov cvpv KOI nXarv, 

 Xo\rjv irpbs TOIS evrepois. 



Breeding. Arist. De Gen. iii. 6, 756 b f) p.ev o^eia oXiycm? oparai, f) Se 

 TOIS pvyxevi Kpbs aXXi;Xa Koii/am'a TroXXafci?, eiori yap Ttvey 01 Xeyovo-i Kara 

 TO o-TO/ia p.iyvv<r6ai TOVS KopaKas, cf. Plin. x. (12) 15 ; Dion. De Avib. i. 

 9 ov piyvvvTat Tvplv TWO. TCUS drjXeiais (pdrjv axnrep yap.fj\iov TrepiKpd^ai. Pair 

 for life, Athen. ix. 506. Lays four to five eggs, Arist. H. A. ix. 31, 618 b. 

 Incubates twenty days and expels the fledglings, ib. vi. 6, 563 b. ; cf. Piin. 

 1. C. Ael. iii. 43 Kopa 6 fjSrj yepav orav pfj $vvr}Tai rpefpeiv TOVS VCOTTOVS, 

 eavrbv avTOis Trporcivei Tpofprjv, | 01 Se fffBiawn TOV TraTepa ; cf. Phile, De 

 Anim. Pr. vi. 



Habits. Mentioned among TO. KCITO. TrdXeiy eico^oVa paXiaTa r)v, Arist. 

 H. A. ix. 23, 617 b. Is a mimic, Ael. ii. 51. /SovXeTai 8e TO>I> 

 fupeladai ras (rTayovas, ib. vi. 19. ov n(Ta(3d\\ct TOVS TOTTOVS ov 



Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 6i7b. How the Ravens pick out sheeps' eyes, Ar. 

 Av. 582. 



Myth and Legend. How there are never more than two Ravens 

 Trepi Tfjv Ka^ov/jLevrjv KOTTTOI/ in Egypt, Ael. vii. 1 8 ; at Krannon in 

 Thessaly, Arist. De Mirab. 126, 842 b, Plin. x. (12) 15 ; in Pedasia in 

 Caria, Arist. De Mirab. 137, 844 b. In this last instance they inhabit 

 the temple, and one has a white throat. Perhaps the nopals here were 

 priests or priestesses, cf. ir^Xeia. See also Arist. H. A. ix. 31. 



On the KopaKes or *opd/aa, as a grade in the Mithraic hierarchy, cf. 

 Porphyr. De Abst. iv. 16, Hieronym. ad Laet. 7, Diodor. i. 62, Inscr. 

 Griiter. p. 1087. 4, &c. ; cf. Montfaucon, ii. p. 377, Creuzer's Symbolik i. 

 p. 253, Miinter ad Jul. Firmic. v. p. 20, &c. Creuzer (i. p. 431) correlates 

 the Indian myth of Brahma appearing in one of his incarnations as 

 a Raven, and compares in turn this latter story (ii. p. 655) with that 

 in Herod, iv. 15. The Raven of Odin is, perhaps, also cognate. 



The Raven as a messenger of Apollo. Hesiod, fr. 125 (142) ap. 

 Schol. Pind. P. 48 (28) TO> /ieV ap' a'yyeXoy ^X$e Ko'pa itprjs OTTO SaiTOS | 

 IlvdS) es fjyadfrjv KCU p ecppao-fv epy didrjXa | $oi/3a> aKepo-Kop.r) : cf. Ael. 

 i. 47 'ATrdXXtoi/off Bepdrrav, with which cf. famulum in Cat. Ixvi. 57, 

 and Ellis's note ; see also Bianor iv in Gk. Anthol. ii. 142 <S>oi'/3ou XaTpts: 

 Ael. i. 47, 48, vii. 18, Porph. De Abst. iii. 5, Stat. Silv. ii. 4 Phoebeius 

 ales, &c. 



Hence with the laurel-emblem, on coins of Delphi. Hence also 

 Stat. Theb. iii. 506 comes obscurus tripodum ; Petron. Sat. c. 122 

 delphicus ales. 



