9 8 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOPHNH (continued}. 



tion and constancy, whence their invocation at weddings, vide Ael. 

 iii. 9 (infra ctt.}. 



Myth and Legend. Its proverbial longevity. Hes. in Plut. De Orac. 

 Def. ii. p. 415 C Ivvfa rot iwei yeveas XuKepua K.op<avr), \ dv8pa>v ?7/3a>i>ra>j/ : 

 cf. Ar. Av. 609, Arat. 1023 cvvedveipa Kopcwr) : Opp. Cyn. iii. 117 aicrd- 

 evra re (pv\a TToKvfaoi (? 7roXuKpa>oi) re Kop&vai. Cf. also Ar. Av. 967 

 TToXtat Kopwvai : Babr. Fab. 46, 9 Kopavrjv devrcpav oVaTrX^o-a?, lived two 

 crows' lives ; Automed. ix (Gk. Anthol. ii. 193) /3i'oi/ <uotre Kopavrjs : 

 Lucill. xcvii (ib. iii. 49) ei /ieV f t s ravaov eXdfpov xpovov f]e Kopavijs : Com. 

 Anon. 4, 680 (Meineke) inrep raj Kopvva? /3e/3ia>K<k, &c. See also Plin. 

 vii. 48, Horat. Car. iii. 17, 16 annosa cornix ; Martial, x. 67 cornicibus 

 omnibus superstes, c. ; Lucret. v. 1083, Juv. x. 247, Ovid, Amor. ii. 6, 36. 

 Auson. Id. xviii. 



Is hostile to yd\r), y\av, op^tXo?, 7rpeo-/3vy, rvrcavos, Arist. H. A. ix. 

 I, 609,610: to aKav6v\\is, Ael. iv. 5 : to deros and KipKos, Ael. xv. 22; 

 friendly to epcoSws, Arist. 1, c., Ael. v. 48. The War of the Owls and 

 Crows, Ael. iii. 9, V. 48 exrfi de fj y\avg eariv avrfj TroXe/Aior, KOI vvKrcap 

 cnijBovXevd rols tools Trjs Kopavys, f) be fj.c& fjfjLepav Klvr)v ravro Spa retro, 

 etdiua %X flv T *) v o^nv TfjV y\avKa TrjviKavra dadevrj. Cf. Jataka, p. 270 ; 



Ind. Antiq., 1882, p. 87; De Gubern. Zool. Myth., &c. Vide 

 s. v. yXau^ for a discussion of the moon-symbolism of the latter bird, 

 and compare the Chinese expression of the Golden Crow and the 

 Jewelled Hare to signify the Sun and Moon. The same legend may 

 account for Athene's supposed enmity to the Crow, cf. Ovid, Amor. ii. 

 6, 35 cornix invisa Minervae. 



Uses dpi<TTp)v as a charm, Ael. i. 35 ; also pa/m/of, Phile, De Am. Pr. 

 725 ; and Trepia-repeuva TOV VTTTIOV, Geopon. XV. 1,19. 



A weather-prophet : of storm, Theophr. Sign. vi. 3, 39 lav ra^u 8ls 

 Kp<ar) KOI rpirov ^et/if'pia o^juaiw . . . Kal o\^e qdovora : Arat. IOO2 Koi 

 ff<rvxa TroiKiXXouovz [s. KcoriXXoucra, Lob.] | &py ev fcnrepir) Kpo>yp.ov TroKvfpojva 

 Kopuvrj : ib. IO22 /cat evvedvcipa Kopavr) \ vvxrtpov de[()ov<ra : cf. Arist. fr. 



241, I522b, ap. Ael. vii. 7, Plut. ii. 674 B, Virg. G. i. 388, Hor. C. iii. 

 17, 13, Lucan v. 556; a sign of fair weather, Theophr. vi. 4, 53 KOI 

 ea>@v fvdvs lav Kpdrj rpi'?, evdiav orq/zati/ei, KOI ecrnfpas ^ft/ucows 



Souo-a : cf. Ael. 1. c., Virg. G. i. 410, Geopon. i. 2, 6, &c. 

 A bad summer is portended when the fig-leaves are shaped like 

 a crow's foot, Plut. ii. 410 E. 



The Crow in augury, seldom mentioned in Greek, save in Ar. Aves ; 

 see also Ael. iii. 9, where a solitary crow is mentioned as an evil omen ; 

 according to Porph. De Abst. iii. 4, the Arabs understood the language 

 of crows. A crow on the left-hand is unlucky, Virg. Eel. ix. 15, Cic. 

 De Div. i. 39, Plaut. Asin. ii. i, 12, &c. ; cf. Hopf, Orakelthiere, p. 115. 



According to Bent, Cyclades, 1885, p. 394, the inhabitants of Anti- 



