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combatants, Ael. iv. I. How the Cirrhaean (Phocian) Partridges, which 

 can neither fight nor sing, deliberately starve themselves in order to be 

 unfit for food also : but the singing and fighting birds deliver them- 

 selves up rather than be slain: Ael. iv. 13; cf. Athen. ix. 390. An 

 Egyptian dwarf who imitated partridges in their cages, Philostorg. x. 

 II (cf. J. E. B. Mayor in Juv. viii. 33). 

 The Partridge as food, Mart. Ep. iii. 58, 15, xiii. 65, 76, &c. 



Myth and Legend. (Besides the stories already told under the head 

 of Breeding-habits, supra). 



On TrepdiKes in the wars of the Cranes and Pygmies ; Basilis and 

 Menecles, ap. Athen. ix. 390 b. 



An evil omen : 2a/iuoi TrXeuaavres els "Svfiapiv KOI Karao-^oj'res' rfjv Siptrii/ 

 avanravr^v KOL rroirjaavTOiv tyofpov, eKTrXayevres e<pvyov } Kal 

 (Is ras vats dveTrXevaav, Heges. ap. Athen. xiv. 656 C. 



A fabled metamorphosis of Perdix, son of Daedalus, Hygin. Fab. 274, 

 Ovid, Met. viii. 236-260. This subject is discussed in a curious essay 

 by Gerland, Ueber die Perdixsage, Halle a. S., 1871. The writer 

 identifies Perdix with the Lapwing. 



Sacred to Zeus and Latona, Ael. x. 35. 



8vo e'xowi Kfipbias, Theophr. ap. Athen. 1. c., Ael. x. 35 (in Paphlagonia ; 

 cf. Plin. xi. 70). 



Hostile to xeAu>i>77, Ael. iv. 5, and to exfvos 6 7rorfioyaYo)i>, Phile, 678. 

 Friendly to e\a(pos (hence a stag's head used as a decoy), Dion. De 

 Avib. i. 1 1 ; to (/mrrct, Ael. v. 48. 



Use KaXa/j-os as a remedy, Ael. i. 35, Phile, 723, Geopon. xv. I ; also 

 opiyavov, Ael. v. 46, or a leaf of laurel, Plin. viii. 27, or the herb variously 

 known as perdicium, helxine, sideritis or parthenium, Plin. xxi. (16) 62 ; 

 xxii. (17) 19. 



Proverbial expressions. nepdiKos (TKt\os, nepdiKos vlos, &C. vide supra. 

 Archil. 95, ap. Athen. ix. 388 f. 7rrco<rcrouo-ai/ coo-re TrepSiKa : with which cf. 

 Ar. Vesp. 1490, c., s. v. dXeKTpuwy. Pherecr. ap. Athen. I.e. *? roO 

 TOV Xeipcom | e^icrw OKCOI/ devpo -rrepftiKos rponov. 



nEPIITEPA'. Etym. dub. According to Benfey (ii. 106) from Sk. 

 pri, ' to love ' ; a derivation not much more convincing than 

 the old on ncpio-a-ws fpa (Schol. Apoll. Rh. iii. 549). Hehn 

 (Wandering of Plants, &c., Eng. ed. p. 484), and others compare 

 O. Slav, pero, ' a feather/ prati, pariti, ' to fly/ 



Other forms are Trepiarcpis, Galen, vi. 708 (ed. Kiihn) ; irepio-repos, 

 Pherecr. Tpa. 2 (2. 266), Alexid. Si^rpe^. 2 (3. 481) ap. Athen. 

 ix. 395 a, b ; Eustath. Horn. p. 1712 ; a form censured by Lucian, 

 Soloec. 7 ; cf. Lat. columlus^ Varro, De L. L. ix. 38. Dim. 



