100 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOPflNH (continued}. 



Var. Phil., i. p. 169 ; Fauriel, Chants de la Gr. Mod., i. p. cix. See also 

 s.v. x 6 ^ 1 ^"- 



Frequent in Fable, e.g. Kopowrj KOI nopat- (the Crow that could not 

 prophesy), Fab. ACS. 2O2 ; Kopcovr/ *A0r)vq duovo-a, ib. 213. xeXia>i> KOI 

 KopavTj, ib. 416. 



Proverb Kop^vrj o-KopTriov [fjpnacre']. Anth. Pal. xii. 92, Hesych., Suid., 

 cf. Ael. vii. 7, Zenob. iv. 60, p. 101. 



KOPft'NH C H AAYAI'AI. The Nightingale ; vide s. v. dYjSui'. 

 KOPfl'NH e H OAAA'IIIOI. An undetermined sea-bird. 



Od. V. 66 Tavvy\(i)O'o~oi re Kopwvai \ eivaXiai, rfjaiv re $aXacr<ria epya 

 fifp.rj'hfv. Ib. xii. 418, xiv. 308 ol 5e Kopavyo-iv txeXoi Trepi vrja peXatvav \ 



K.VfJ.aO~lV fJL<popOVTO. 



Arrian. Peripl. c. 21 Xapoi *ai aWviai KOL KopS>vai al da\d(rcriai TO 7r\r)Qo$ 

 ov pradfttyrot* ovrot of opvides Oepanevova-iv roO *A^iXXea)y roi/ veoov. fc 

 6<rr)p.fpai Karate roi/roi es TTJV 6d\a(T<Tav' eirfira OTTO Tijs 6a\d(T(Trjs 



fJLCVOt TO. TTTfpO. (TTTOV^fj av (T7rTOVTai fS TOV ^COJ/, KOI paivOVCTt TOV V0)V. 



Arat. Progn. 95 *7 7TOV Ka ' XaKepv^a Trap' rfiovi 7rpov%ovcrr] 

 ep^o/iefou ^ep(r< VTrerv^e Kopooi/^, | ^f TTOU /cai noTap.oio e/Sa^aro /xe^pi Trap' 

 aKpovs | &ILOVS fK Kf<paXf)y, ^ <at /iaXa Traora KoXu/z/3a, | 77 TroXXj) arpe(perat 

 Trap' vdcop na^ea. Kpw^ovaa I cf. Geopon. i. 3, 7 Kf *' KOpd>vr) eV' atyiaXoi) r^i/ 

 Ke(pa\f)v 8iaj3px ovo ' a } *l 7TO" a vr lXP* vr )i K( *i- WKTOS o-fpo&porepov Kpa>ovara, 

 opftpovs 7rpoiJ.r)vvi : Theophr. Sign. vi. I, l6 Kopcovrj eVt TreVpa? Kopvarao- 

 fjv Kipa KaTaxXv^fi. vdap (rrjfjLaivet' Kal *coXu/i/3a)(ra TroXXa/ciy 



These passages, with which compare Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b, and 

 Ael. xv. 22, denote a different bird altogether from fcopeov?/, evidently 

 a swimming and diving bird, and not merely one frequenting the sea- 

 shore as the Carrion Crow and Hooded Crow do. It is neither a Xapo? 

 nor an aWuia (Arrian, 1. c.) though identified with them by the Scholiast 

 in Od. v. 66, with whom cf. Hesych. Kop&vaC aXiai aWvuu, KoXv/t/3i'Sfy. 

 It may be another name for the Cormorant (vide s. v. Kopa, |3) : but 

 it is not safely identifiable. 



It is apparently such passages which are imitated in Virg. G. i. 388 

 Turn cornix plena pluviam vocat improba voce, Et sola in sicca secum 

 spatiatur arena; cf. Claud. De Bell. Gild. 492 Heu nimium segnes, 

 cauta qui mente notatis, Si revolant mergi, graditur si littore cornix. 

 Cf. however the weather-prophecies s. v. KoXoios. It is at least pretty 

 clear that in such passages the Latin poets were thinking more of what 

 they had read than of what they had seen. 

 KO'IKIKOI, KOTtKas, KOTTOS, KOTTuXos. The Common Fowl. Hesych. 



KOCTKIKOL' ol KaToiKiftioi opvdes. KOTIKCIS' dXeVnwp. KOTTOS' opvis. 



KorruXoi* KaroLKidiai opvds. 



