KOPYAAAOI KOPflNH 97 



KOPYAAAOI (continued}. 



with the statement that the Greeks probably transferred the legend to the 

 lark ; vide s.v. eiroij/. The legend, which probably includes a solar myth, 

 is very obscure. Connected with it is probably the epithet e7riTu/i/3i'Stoi 

 KopvdaXXidesj Theocr. vii. 27, but the line in Babrius Ixxii. 20 KopvdaXkbs 

 ovv rdcpois naifav is spurious and unreliable (W. G. R.). The Kopvdos 

 and eTrox//- (both crested birds) are frequently confused : the very word 

 Alauda is possibly an Eastern word for the Hoopoe, Arab, al hudhud. 

 Cf. Plin. xi. 37 galerita appellata quondam, postea gallico (?) vocabulo 

 alauda. 



Associated with the name Philoclees, Ar. Av. 1295. 



The superficial resemblance between KopvdaXos and the name of 

 "ApTffiis KopvQaXia (Athen. iv. 139) may help to explain"Apre/iiy 'AKaXavdis 

 and the other similar epithets in Ar. Av. 870-877. 



A fabled metamorphosis, Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. 7, where Hippo- 

 dameia is transformed into a lark, 6Yt eKopvcrcreTo Trpos ras ITTTTOV?. 



Fables. KopvSaXos els Trdyrjv aXovs, Aes. 209 (c. 55, F. 228). KOpvdaXos 

 /cat yccopyo'y, Ib. 2IO (F. 379, C. 421, B. 88). 



KOPYOft'N, also Kopui/6euV dXf/crputoi/, Hesych. Very probably identical 

 with Kopu&wi/, s. v. KopuSaXos. 



KOPYAAin'N- opvtGos eldos, Hesych. Vide s. v. icoXXupia>i>. 



The Crow, Corvus cor one, L., including also the Hooded 

 Crow, C. comix, L. Mod. Gk. Kop&va (Erh.), Kovpovva (v. d. M.). 

 Sometimes the Rook, which only appears in Greece during the 

 winter, and appears to have received no special name : vide s.v. 

 onrepjULoXoyos. On the confusion in Latin between comix, corvus, 

 &c., v. Wedgwood, Tr. Philol. Soc., 1854, p. 107; also W. W. 

 Fowler, ' A Year with the Birds/ c. vii. Dim. Kopw^iSeus, Cratin. 



ILv\. IO. 



First in Hes. Op. 747 M T0t e(peop.evr) Kpu>rj \ctKepvfa Kopavrj : cf. Ar. 

 Av. 609 ; Apoll. Rhod. iii. 928 ; Arat. 950. 



Described as frequenting cities, Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 617 b, not a migrant, 

 ib. (cf. Fab. Aes. 415). No bigger in Egypt than in Greece, ib. viii. 28, 

 606 ; alimentary canal as in the Raven, ib. ii. 17, 504 ; frequent the sea- 

 shore, to feed on jettisoned carcases, being omnivorous, ib. viii. 3, 593 b ; 

 Archil. 44, ap. Athen. 594 O-VKYJ Trerpair) 7ro\\as jBoaKovo-a Kopwvas (? rooks). 



Breeding habits. Arist. De Gen. iv. 6, 774b TLKrovatv a'reXr/ /cat rv(p\d. 

 H. A. VI. 8, 564 eVspa^bt'O'i de ai 6rj\eiai povai, Kai 8iaT(\ov(riv en avru)v 

 ovcrai dia Travros' rpffpovcri 8' auras ol appeves Kop,iovTes rr]v rpocprjv avrais 

 /cat airi^ovrfs : ib. 6, 563 b eVrt rtra xpovov eTTt/zeXelrat* /cat yap ijdrj Trero- 

 On their monogamous habits, mutual afifec- 

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