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KOPAE (continued}. 



after the rising of Corvus, as does also Taurus). The raven is friendly 

 to the fox, Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 b. The raven's eggs dye the hair and 

 the teeth black, Ael. i. 48, Phile, De An. vi, Plin. xxix. (6) 34. The 

 raven in medicine, Plin. xxix. (4) 13, &c. After killing a chameleon, 

 the raven uses a leaf of laurel as an antidote to the reptile's venom, 

 Plin. viii. (27) 41. 



For an account of the various Raven-myths discussed in connexion 

 with the astronomic symbolism of the constellation Corvus, see Hygin. 

 Poet. Astron. xl, Fab. ccii, German, c. xl, Eratosthen. c. xli, Theon. 

 p. 151, Vitruv. ix. 7, Ovid. 1. c., Dupuis, Orig. de tous les cultes, vi. 

 p. 457,&c. 



A "Weather-prophet. A prophet of storm : Arat. 963-969 89 TTOTC Kal 

 yeveal KOpaKav Kal <pv\a /coXoian/ 1 vdaros ep%ofjLvoio Aio? ndpa (rrjfji eyevovro, \ 

 (paivopevoi dye\T]8a Kal iprjKfao'iv o/zola | (p0ydp,voi . . . 17 TTOTC KOI Kpo)avr 

 (3apcirj SicrcraKi (pwvfj \ fjuiKpbv eVtppoie{)(ri Ttvaacropevoi Trrcpa TTVKVO, I cf. 

 Theophr. De Sign. vi. I, l6 *opa TroXXas- /iera/3dXXfii/ <B0obff (puvds, 

 TOVTOJV eav ra^i/ 8ty (pOey^rjTai. Kal 7nppoir)(TT] Kal rivd^rj ra Trrepa vdu>p <rr)- 

 paivfi' KOI edv verav OVTWV no\\ds /xerajSaXXj; <pa>vas Kal edv (pdeipifrrai 

 eV e'Xaiay' KOI edv re evStas fdv re vdaros ovros /zi/i^rai r,^ (pavfj olov 

 ffTaXaypovs v8a>p o-rjfjialvti (vide Aratus, 1. c.), cf. ib. c. 3 ; Arist. ap. Ael. 

 vii. 7 ra^ecoff KOI eVirpox 009 <p^eyyo/xei/os KCU Kpovav rds TTTepvyas Kal Kpornv 

 avraSy on ^ftjucov earai Kareyvo) rrpaiTos. Kopa 8e au Kal Kopavr) Kal KO\OIOS 

 8e[\r)s o^fias fl (pdeyyoivTO, %fip.covo$ e&e&dai nva 7ri8r)p,iav 8i8darKov(ri I 

 Plut. Sol. Anim. ii. 129 A, Nic. Ther. 406 and Schol, &c. A sign of 

 fair weather: Arat. 1003 Kal KopaKes povvovfjifv' fpypaloi (Booavrfs \ div- 

 avrap eireira p.ey ddpoa KK\r)ya>Ts \ rrXciorepot, dye\r)8bv eTrrjV KO'LTOIO 

 (pavfjs e/n7rXeioi : cf. Theophr. op. cit. vi. 4, 13, Q. Smyrn. xii. 

 513, Geopon. i. 2, 6; i. 3, 8, Plin. xviii. 87, Virg. G. i. 382, 410. In 

 the Georgics, the allusion is evidently to rooks, as is perhaps also the 

 case, though more doubtfully, in Aratus ; cf. W. W. Fowler, ' A Year 

 with the Birds ' (3rd ed.), p. 234. 



Varieties. White ravens, Arist. H. A. iii. 12, 519 : cf. De Color. 

 6, 799 b ; Cod. Rhod. Lect. Antiq. xvii. i i ; though \evKos Kopag = 

 cygnus niger, an unheard-of thing, Anth. Pal. xi. 417 (Jac. iv. 130) 

 TI 7retpaeiff \*VKOV Idelv KopaKa ; see also Photius, s. v. cs 

 Athen. 359 E; Lucian, Epigr. 9 (3, 689) Qarrov crjv \CVKOVS 

 Trrrjvds re ^eXcoj/as | (vpelv rj doKtpbv pyropa KamradoKrjv ; cf. Schol. in Ar. 



Nub. 133 ; Juv. Sat. vii. 202. Cf. fable of *opa KCU KVKVOS, Acs. 206. 

 According to Boios and Simmias, ap. Anton. Lib. c. xx, Lycias, son 

 of Cleinis, was metamorphosed into a white Raven. The ravens in 

 Egypt are smaller than in Greece, Arist. H. A. viii. 28, 606. 



a fabulous variety, Lucian, Ver. Hist. i. 16. Kopa 



