130 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



F1EAEIA (continued}. 



white ones ; cf. also Herod, ii. 55 p.e '\aivai Tn-XeiaSey. IleXeia seems 

 lost as a current word in Mod. Gk. : it does not occur in 

 Aristophanes, save in the Homeric parody in Ar. Av. 575. 

 In Horn, frequent ; the only Homeric word for pigeon, save for the 

 occurrence of (pdao-a in the compound (pao-o-o(poj>o?, II. xv. 238. Usually 

 with epithet rpr\pw q.v., a word of equally doubtful etymology, the received 

 derivation from rpe<a appearing dubious in the light of such pigeon- 

 names as Tpvymv, turtur, ^in , &c. 5 cf. TroXurpqpwt/ (descriptive epithet 

 of the towns Thisbe and Messe), II. ii. 502, 582, and Lye. 87, 423, where 

 rprjpaiv=7r\eia : see also Eustath. Horn. II. pp. 1262, 1712, Athen. xi. 

 490 D. A prey to tprjg, II. xxi. 493, to nip?, II. xxii. 139; cf. Aesch. 

 Pr. V. 858. Messengers of Zeus, when Rhea protected him from 

 Cronos, Od. xii. 62 Tre'Aemi | rpypuves, rai T' dfj.fipoorir)v Ail Trarpl (pepov<riv. 

 As ornaments of Nestor's cup, II. xi. 634 8oial de TreXeioSfs- dp.fos 

 fKCHTTov [ovas] \ xpucmot vepfdovro, cf. Athen. 1. c. Captured in springes, 

 Od. xxii. 468 ; cf. Dion. De Avib. iii. 12 (s. v. <pd<r<ra). In Homer the 

 pigeon is never spoken of as a domesticated bird, and is definitely 

 a wild one in II. xxi. 139, and Od. xxii. 468. II. xxi. 495 suggests the 

 Rock-dove, C. livid I fj pa ff t><p* ipfjKo? KoiXr/i> ftcreTrroro frerpty?, | 

 cf. Q. Smyrn. xii. 12 tp^ creue neXciav' eTreiyop.^^ &' apa Keivrj, | 

 7TTpt]s KaTfdvo-aTo i cf. also Virg. Aen. v. 213. 



In Aristotle distinguished from TrcpioTepdi : H. A. v. 13, 544 b er 

 eon rrepL(TTpa KCU TTfXfids' e'Xdrrcoi/ /ney ovv 17 TreXeia?, Tidaacrov 8e yiWrai 

 fiaXXoi/ 17 TTfpio-repa. 77 8e TTfXetas KOI /j.e\av Kal piKpov Koi cpvQpoirovv Kal 

 rpaxvnovvj 816 Kal ov6e\s rpefai. [The contrary stated, Athen. ix. 394 C.] 

 Ib. viii. 12, 597 b anaipovo-i 8e KCU at (peirrat KOI al TreXfiaSey, KOI ov X fl ^"~ 

 ^ouo-t, ni 8e Trfpio-repat Kara^svova-iv. According to Sundevall, TreXem is 

 here in Aristotle the Stock-dove, C. oenas, otms being the Rock-pigeon, 

 C. livid, 4>&|r or <j)dtTTa, the Ring-dove, C. palumbus, and irepio-TCpd, 

 the Domestic Pigeon. Aubert and Wimmer, on the other hand, take 

 olvag as the Stock-dove, and leave ?re'Xeia in doubt. For my part, I do 

 not think the Stock-dove was recognized as a distinct species, but was 

 included, as in Mod. Gk. (Erhard, Heldreich), under the name (poo-era 

 with the Ring-dove. Excluding the Turtle-doves, there then only 

 remain the wild Rock-pigeon (Mod. Gk. dyptoTrfptorept) and the 

 domestic variety ; and I imagine that both olvds (q. v.) and TreXeto 

 refer, in Aristotle, to the wild Rock-pigeon, and Trepitrrfpo especially to 

 the Tame Pigeon; cf. also Moeris (p. 405, ed. Koch, 1830) elwOds, rj 

 KaroiKidios TTfpicrTfpa, f) yap aypia, ireXfids. The account in Arist. H. A. 

 v. 13 is corrupt and not to be too much depended on, especially in 

 view of the discrepant quotation in Athenaeus. The chief difficulty 

 in the whole interpretation is the passage H. A. viii. 12, where it 

 is asserted that both <parr<u and TreXeiafiey migrate and do not remain 





