124 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



OPTYE (continued}. 



orav ffiTrecraxnv, eav p.ev evdia /} jBopeiov 17, o~vv$vdovrai re KOI ei>T)p.povo'iv 

 eav 8e voros, ^aXcTrw? e^ovtri Sia TO pfj elvai wrrfrtKol' vypbs yap Kal 

 ftapvs 6 avfp.os' dib Kal ol 6r)pfvovTes OVK 7Ti)(ipovo~iv evdias' Tots voriois ' 

 ou Treroi/rai Sta TO fidpos' TTO\V yap TO croi/ia, dib Kal fio&VTes TTCTOVTOL' 

 TTOVOVO~I yap. orav [lev ovv eKeldev TrapafidXXaxriV) OVK f^ovcriv fjyeuovas. 

 orav 6' evrevdev airaipaa-iV) fj re yXwrris o-vvanaipeL Kal f] opruyo^ryTpa, K.T.X. 

 Cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 30; Plin. x. 33 (23) ; Varro, De Re Rust. iii. 5,7. 

 The connexion between the quails' flight and the wind is well known : 

 cf. Numb. xi. 31 ; Joseph. Ant. iii. I, 5. 



Modes of capture. With a mirror, Clearch. Sol. ap. Athen. ix. 393 

 of oprvyes TTfpi rbv rrjs o^eias Kaipbv, eav KaroTrrpov c evavrias TIS avr&v 

 Kal Trpb TOVTOV J3p6%ov dfj } Tpe\ovres TTpbs rbv eufpaivo^fvov ev TK> KctTOTTTpcp 

 e/i7riVTouo-ii/ fls rbv (^po^ov. With a sort of scare-crow, Dion. De Avib. 

 iii. 9. With nets simply, on the coast of Egypt, Diodor. i. 60. A quail- 

 catcher, opTuyo07?pas-, Plat. Euthyd. 290 D. Cf. Arist. H. A. ix. 8, 614 

 ovTO) &e o~<podpa Kal ol TrepSiKey Kai 01 oprvyes e'TTTO^vrcu Trepi TTJV o^eiav, cocrr' 

 els TOVS QrjpevovTas e/XTriTTTOucrt Kai TroXXaKir Ka6idvov(riv eirl ras Ke<pa\ds. 



Abundance and cheapness : cf. Antiph. ap. Athen. ix. 397 rr\eiovs 8* 

 flarl vvv [of raaves] T>V bprvya>v. Juv. Sat. 12. 97. 



In Egypt, according to Herod, ii. 77 TOVS opTvyas otua ariTeovrai, rrpo- 

 Tcipixcvo-avTes : cf. Diodor. 1. c. : vide s. v. y^lwiov. On potted Quails 

 in the Morea, cf. G. St. Hilaire ap. Bory de St. Vincent, More'e, 

 Oiseaux, p. 35. 



Domesticated and pet Quails: Ar. Pax 789 opru-yas oiKoyevfis: cf. Ar. 

 Fr. 36; Arist. Probl. x. 12, i ; Plut. V. Alcib. i. 195 E, Mor. ii. 799 D ; 

 Varro, iii. 5, 2 ; M. Anton, i. 6. A lover's gift, Ar. Av. 707, Plat. Lys. 

 211 E: cf. Plaut. Capt. v. 4, 5; vide Jacobs ad Anthol. x. p. 13. 

 Hence </>iXop, Plat. Lys. 212 D ; </>iXopTuyorpo<pea>, Artemid. iii. 5, c. 



Quail-fights. Lucian, Anach. 37 (2, 918); Plat. Lys. 211 E; Plut. 

 i. 930 E, cock and quail-fights between Antony and Caesar (cf. Ant. and 

 Cl. ii. 4 ' and his quails ever Beat mine, inhoop'd at odds ') ; ibid. ii. 207 B 

 how in Egypt a procurator of Augustus killed and ate a victorious 

 quail, and how retribution fell on him ; Ovid, Amor. ii. 6, 27, &c. This 

 sport, still common among the Chinese, Malays, &c., was practised 

 in Italy in Aldrovandi's time (Ornith. ii. p. 74 : cf. Voss., De Idol. c. 86, 

 p. 596). For a Chinese picture of a quail-fight, showing the 'hoop' 

 or TrjXia (cf. supra, p. 22, s. v. dXeKxpuwf), see Douce's Illustr. of 

 Shakspeare, p. 367 ; cf. also Bell's Travels in China, i. p. 404 (8vo 

 ed.). See also Becker's Charicles. The birds are said to have been 

 stimulated to fight with bells, cf. Schol. in Ar. Lys. 485 (dKcoouvio-Tov) ; 

 see also Aristarch. ap. Harpocrat. s. v. SieKwoomo-e. 



Quail-striking, opTuyoKOTria, Jul. Pollux, ix. 107. The player was 

 s-, Plat. Com. IlepiaXy. 4, ap. Athen. xi. 506 D or (TTV(poK6jros. 



