KOPflNH 99 



KOPQNH (continued}. 



paros are called Kovpovvai by their neighbours in Paros, the reason 

 assigned being that if the former see a crow on the south side of 

 a tree, they are in terror. 



How a crow never enters the Acropolis at Athens, Arist. fr. 324, 

 I532b, Ael. v. 8, Apollon. viii, Plin. x. (12) 14. (This statement is 

 believed by some modern travellers, cf. Dr. Chandler, Trav. in Greece, 

 c. xi. p. 54 ; and may have a foundation in fact, due simply to the height 

 of the hill.) How a crow in Egypt used to cany messages for King 

 Marres, and was honoured with a sepulchre, Ael. vi. 7. How a crow 

 dies if it falls in with the leavings of a wolf's dinner (!), Ael. vi. 46, Phile, 

 671. How a brazen crow was found in the foundation of Coronea, 

 Paus. iv. 34, 5. How the crows showed the grave of Hesiod, Paus. ix. 

 38, 3. How the young crow leaves the egg feet first, Dion. De Avib. i. 10. 

 The heart eaten, to secure prophetic powers, Porph. De Abst. ii. 48 (cf. 



It was invoked at weddings, Ael. iii. 9 OKOUO) Se TOVS naXai Kal Iv rots 

 ydfjLOis p.Ta TO vp.eva.iov rrjV Koputvrjv KO\~IV, o-vvdrjp,a opovoias TOVTO rots 

 avviovo'LV eirl TraidoTToiiq didovTff. Cf. Horap. i. 9 ydp.ov de dr]\ovvres ) dvo 

 Kopwvas <Bypa(pot;(n [01 Atywmot] : regarding which statement, see Lauth, 

 Sitzungsber. Bayer. Akad. 1876, p. 79. Cf. also Horap. i. 8 r6i>"Apea KOI 

 Trjv^AcppodiTrjvypd^ovTes, dvo Kopwvas faypacpovaiv, <$ avdpa KOI yvvalKa, errel 

 roOro TO q>ov dvo <wa yevvq, a<p' a>v cippev Kal 6rj\v yvvao~dai Set. eVeiSai/ 6e 

 ycvvrjo"?], onfp o~7raviti)S yiVerai, dvo dpo~viK.dj r) dvo 6rj\VKa^ ra dpcreviKa ras 

 6rj\fias yafjLTjo-avra ov /Jiiayerai eVepa Kopwvrj, ov8e jj-rjv f) QrjXeia erepa KOpwvrj 

 , aXXa p-ova ra airo^vyevTa 6iareXet. dib Kal fj.ia Kopavy o~vvav- 

 Tai ol ai>6pa)7TOi, &)? x r iP ^ OVTl o~vvr)VTr)KOTcs fpa>' rf]S de 

 TOiavrrjs avrcov 6/j.ovoias X^P LV P^XP 1 vvv ' 1 "EXX^ycy ev rdls ydpois' eKKOpi, 

 Kopij Kopwvrj' \eyovo-iv dyvoovvres. Cf. the Delphic oracle ap. Pausan. 

 ix. 37, 4 en//-' rj\6es yeverjv dt^rj^fvoS) oXX' en KOI vvv \ i<jToftor[i yepovri verjv 

 Trort/SaXXe Kopwvrjv. 



The much-discussed words eKKopi, Kopi, Kopuvrj, or (Prov.) xo'pe, eV/fo'pei 

 Kopdovrjv are quite obscure (cf. Herm. Opusc. ii. 227, Leemans in Horap. 

 p. 156, various commentators on Pind. P. iii. 19, &c.). They are prob- 

 ably part of a ( Crow-song,' and very likely involve a corruption of 

 foreign words : TTJKOpI (which word includes the article) is said to be 

 Coptic for a Crow or Daw. Various uses of cKKopew, fcoxojplgbpai, &c., 

 are perhaps involved in the same corruption ; cf. also the word-play on 

 Koprj, Kouposy &c., in the Crow-song next referred to. 



On the Crow-song, Kopcuiuo-fxa, and its singers, Kopoworai, see Athen. 

 viii. 359 lda de 3?oiviK.a rrjv KoXo(pa>i/ioi/ iap.{3oTroiov p.vr]p,ovevovTa nvu>v 

 dvdpvv a>s dyeipovTMV rfj Kopavy (cf. Hesych. S. V. ropawtOTOu), Kal Xeyovmv 

 raCra' 'Eo-^\ot Kopco^ ^eipa Trpoo-dore Kpiflav, Trj naidl roD 'ATroXXcovoy, 

 wv, K.r.X. Ilgen, Poet. Gr. Mendicorum Spec., in Opusc. 

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