126 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



OPTYE (contimted). 



r)e\ioio were observed and their festivals celebrated, as of old in 

 Delos. Cf. (int. al.) Find. Nem. i. 



The word OPTYroeHPA, on coins of Tarsus (Mionnet, Suppl. vii. 

 p. 258, &c.) is supposed to refer to a similar symbolic festival (Stark, 

 op. c., p. 44). 



Hostile to Tre\Kav, Ael. vi. 45, Phile, 684. A prey to hawks, Ael. 

 vii. 9. Arist. H. A. ix. II, 615 6 iepa rrjv rot) oprvyos Kapdiav ov 



How the Quails, migrating, carry each three stones, to hear by 

 drgpping them whether they be over the sea, Dion. De Avib. i. 30 : cf. 

 Plin. x. 33 (sand for ballast) ; cf. s.v. yepai/os. 



An obscure allusion in Lye. 401 rvp-^os 6e yeirav oprvyos Trerpov/xei/qs | 

 TpffjLtov (pv\dei po^Bov Alyaias d\6s. 



Proverbial Beferences. Philostr. V. Sophist., p. 253 (ed. Kayser) 

 p) -yap fir) Iv Tfixfi 7ri7TTr]^o)pfv oprvyaiv ava^dpevoi <pv<nv. Antiph. ap. 

 Athen. ix. p. 392 C a>? Sr) o-v ri iroidv Swdfifvos oprvyiov 



OPXIAOZ, s. opxiXos. Probably the Wren; cf. rpox^os. Hesych. 

 opviQapiov ra>v cvavrjT&V Xeyerai be VTTO TIVWV (raATrtyJVjrqs : cf. Phot. 

 351. 12. 



Ar. Av. 569 /3aatXfu? eVr' op^i'Xos opvis : cf. trochilus, Plin. viii. 37, 

 x. 95. Mentioned also Ar. Vesp. 1513. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 y\ai>g /cat op^iXos TroX/^ta, ra yap wa 

 rrjs y\avKOS. 



A sign of rain, Arat. 1025 op^iXo? fj KOI epiOevs bvvuv es <oi\as o 

 Cf. Theophr. De Sign. vi. 3. 39, 4. 53. According to Nicand. ap. Anton. 

 Lib. c. xiv, Alcander, son of Munychus, was metamorphosed into the 

 bird 6'pxiXos-. 



An evil omen at weddings : Avienus in Arat. 1. c. infestus floricomis 

 hymenaeis orchilus. Cf. Euphor. ap. Tzetz. ad Lycophr. p. 83 (cit. 

 Schn. in Arist. 1. C.), TrouaXov ovSe p.f\a6pov op^i'Xos CTTTJ; KVLKOS. oi/S* 

 fjeia-f KOKOV ydpov ex^opevos Kpeg. 



opxiXos and rpoxiXos (qu. r-op^iXoy) are probably identical words, 

 and of foreign origin. KopOiXos (q- v.) may be yet another corrupt 

 form. Lauth (in Horap. i. 57, Sitzungsber. d. Bayer. Akad. 1876, p. 107), 

 comparing Copt. OTpA. avis, and OTfpO rex, affords a hint which 

 may explain, by referring to an Egyptian source, the origin both of 

 and of its synonym or epithet 



'OITOKATA'KTHI, 'OITOKAA'ITHI, 'OITOKO'PAE. In Byz. Gk. for 



ossifragus, 

 OY*PAE. The Athenian name for re'rpii (q.v.), Arist. H. A. vi. i, 559. 



