flEAEKAN riEPAIS 137 



HEAAOI (continued}. 



f'pyaerai de TTJV rj/jLtpav. rrjv p.vroi xpoav c^ei <pav\r)v Kn\ TTJV K.oi\lav act 

 vypav. Cf. Plin. x. (60) 79. 



In II. x. 275, there is an alternative reading TreXXoy 'A&pfifr}, vide s. v. 

 epcoSiog. 



riEPrOY'AON' opvidapiov 'ApyaXe'yeo [? 'Apyeioi Xcyovcrt] Hesych. Cf. 

 . Vide S. VV. airopyiXos, orpouOos. 



T1EPAIKO0H'PAI. A specific appellation of a Hawk, sacred to Apollo ; 

 Ael. xii. 4. 



FIE'PAIE. (On the quantity of the i, vide Athen. ix. 41, 388, and Soph. 



fr. 300, ibi cit.). 



A Partridge (Etym. dub.) Mod. Gk. 7rep8t<a. Dim. TrepSinaSfv?, 

 Eust. 753, 56; TTfpSiKtov, Eubul. Inc. 14, Ephipp. Obeliaph. ap. 

 Athen. ix. 359 b, &c. The species commonly referred to is 

 Perdix graeca = P. saxatilis, auctt., the Common Partridge, 

 P. cmerea, being distinguished from it chiefly by its note. 



Arist. H. A. iv. 9, 536 B 01 fier KaKKa{3{ovo~iv, ol Se rpiov(riv. P.graeca 

 cries cacabis, P. cinerea on the other hand girrah or ripipri. The 

 latter bird, our common Partridge, is now confined to the north of 

 Greece. Cf. Athen. ix. 390 a, b : Theophr. ap. Athen. 1. c. ol 'Adrjvrja-i 

 en-! rafie TrepStKe? roC KopuSaXXov [a village on the road to Boeotia] npbs 

 TO ao~rv KaKKa^i^ovo~iv, ol S' TreKiva TnTv(3iovo~iv ; cf. Plin. x. (29) 4* 

 Perdices non transvolant Boeotiae fines in Atticam ; Solin. vii. 23. 

 Athen. ibid. TWV de 7Tfp8tK<oj/ ecrrti/ erepov yevos eV 'IraXia apavpov rfj 

 TTTepaxrei Kal fjuKpoTepov rfj e^et, TO pvy%os ov%l KLvvafBapivov %X OV ' this 

 seems to be again the common Partridge. The red legs of the Greek 

 Partridge, Ael. xvi. 2 ; vide s.v. ireXeiag xXwp<"mXos. Cf. Ael. iii. 35 ; 

 Antig. H. Mirab., vi. See also s. vv. fifxaXXos, KaKKa^Tj, in]pi, 



Description. An epitomized account, mostly after Arist. (fr. 270), in 

 Athen. ix. 389 ; ^fpcratoy, o-^iSaroTrous-, KOVKTTIKOS (H. A. ix. 498, 633 b), 

 $7 <5e err) nevrfKaideKa (ib. ix. 7, 613 ; sixteen years, ib. vi. 4, 563), 

 fj de 0fj\eia KOI 7T\eiova. orav de yvu OTI QrjpfveTai, rrpoeXdcw TTJS vfOTrias 

 KvXivdelTai vrnpa ra cnceXr) roO fypevovros (H. A. ix. 8, 613 b, Ael. iii. 16, 

 Plut. ii. 992 B, Antig. H. Mirab. 39 (45), Plin. x. (33) 51; cf. verb. 

 eKTrepftiKio-at, Ar. Av. 768, and Schol. ; also StaTrepSiKi'^Vti/, Meineke, Com. 

 Fr. iv. 634)* I n Ar. Av. 1292 7rep8i p,ev cis K<'nrr]\os a)i/o^idero | ^coXos 1 , 

 the allusion is rather to its supposed habit of feigning lameness, than 

 merely, in a general way, to the bird as a proverbial deceiver ; cf. Prov. 



TTfpdlKOS (TKfXos, ap. Schol. KClKOrjOr]? KCU TTUVOVpyOS (H. A. ix. 8, 6l3, 6 1 4), 



1 , ano(pvddes } H. A. ii. 17, 508, 509. ov p.6vov adei aXXa 



