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MAAAKOKPANEYI (continued}. 



(Belon, Schneider, Brisson, &c.). It must, however, be remembered 

 that the bird is mentioned once only, and in a portion of the Historia 

 Animalium that is full of difficulties and incongruities : the epithets 

 associated with it are numerous, but mean little or nothing ; x ov ^P OTV7ros 

 does not occur elsewhere ; dXio-Kerai yXavKi is a phrase of doubtful 

 meaning and questionable construction. The Aristotelian description 

 seems at first sight copious and adequate, but in the words of Camus, 

 'autant qu'il semblerait devoir etre facile de reconnoitre le Crane-mol, 

 autant est-il certain que jusqu'ici il ne 1'a pas eteV The bird irdpSaXos, 

 q. v., is next mentioned, and is in like manner impossible to identify. 



MAPA'IIAI- opt>i6es, Hesych. 



MATTY'HI' f) piv <pa>vr) MaicedoviKr), opm, Hesych. Cf. paTTitrj, Artemid. 

 ap. Athen. xiv. 663 D, &c. 



MEOYOPl'AEI' eiSos piKpav opviOuv, Hesych. 



MEAArKO'PY4>OZ. Probably the Marsh Tit, Parus palustris, L.; in 

 which identification Sundevall and Aub. and Wimm. agree. But 

 there was a confusion between this bird and the Blackcap Warbler, 

 Motacilla atricapilla, L., Sylvia atricapilla, auctt. The verb 

 p.e\ayKopv(pifa, to warble like the p.e\ayKopv(pos, Hero Spir. p. 220, 

 suggests the latter of these two. See also s.v. <ruKa\is. 

 Mentioned in Ar. Av. 887. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 15, 6l6b am nXelara TI'KT fj,era TOV ev Aiftvg (TTpovdov' 

 eajparew p.cv yap KCI\ enTOKaideKa, riKTei pevTOi KOI TrXet'a) 77 e'Uoo-iv. riVrft 

 5' del TTfptrra, cos (patriv. veorrevd de Kai ovros ev rots dev&pecri, KOI 

 TOi'ff crKiaXrjKas. Idiov de TOVTG> KOI dr)$6vi napa TOVS a\\ovs opvidas TO 

 *Xiv TTJS y\a>TTYjs TO o|u [vide s. v. eirovj/]. ix. 49 B, 632 b /^-raj 

 els aXXfoovs at avKa\L&fs KOI ol p.e\ayKopv(poi' yiverai 5' fj pev (TVKaXls irep\ 

 r>]v OTTcopav, 6 de p.e\ayKopv(pos evdews jj.fTa TO (pQtvorrwpov (cf. Geopon. 

 XV. I, 22 evOvs p.Ta TO TpvyrjTOv). diafpepovat 8e KCU OVTOI ovQev d\\r]\<0v 

 n\r)V TTJ XPfy Ka * 1 T W </><w?7. OTI 5' 6 avros C<TTIV opj/iy, fjdr] ooTTTni TTfpi TTJV 

 fieTci(3o\r)v eKa.T(pov TO yevos rouro, OI/TTCO de reXecos iieTafteftiKrjKOTa ovfi' ev 

 Garepq) e'idei 6Wa. Cf. Plin. x. 44, Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ii. 69, p. 65 b 

 dvo d' elvat yevrj airov avKaXida Kai fjLe\ayKopv(jjov. Ael. vi. 46, Phile 6oi 

 TOV p.\ayKopv<pov ayvos enTpiflei. A fabulous Arabian bird, Plin. xxxvii. 33. 



MEAA'MHYroi. A word applied to the Eagle in the Fable of the Fox 

 and the Eagle, Archil, fr. no (86). Schol. Venet. II. xxiv. 315 



euo$e KUI 6 'Ap^i'Xo^os /ueXdjuTruyov TOVTOV KaXelv : Schol. Lye. 91 elal 

 yap n(\dp.Tniyoi, nvyapyoi, eidrj dfTwv KUT 'Ap^iXoxoi/ : cf. also Hesych., 



and Gaisford's note. Cf, also Schneidewin ; Farnell, Gk. Lyr. 

 Poets, p. 300, &c. 



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