14 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



HEPIITEPA (continued}. 



jrepiorepiSeus, Schol. Ar. Ach. 866, Eust. 753, Suid.; jrepiorepio'ioi', 

 LXX. Lev. i. 14, Athen. xiv. 654 a; Treptor^pioy, Pherecr. HeraX. 

 2 (2. 322), Phryn. Com. Tpaya>8. 4 (2. 599) ap. Athen. ix. 395 c, 

 xiv. 654 b, &c. (vide Meineke). 

 A Pigeon. See also S. VV. elms, ireXeia, irupaXXts, rpuywv, <f>d<raa, 



First mentioned in Charon ap. Athen. ix. 3940, and Herod, i. 138; 

 in Attic, first in Sophocles, then in the Comic Poets and Plato. 



Description. opvis ayeXmo?, Arist. H. A. i. I, 488; TO <ra>fia oyKcoSer, 

 De Gen. iii. I, 749 b ; /ca/mo^a-ya Kal Tro^ayei, H. A. viii. 3, 593- i> K 

 dvaKimTti Trivovcra, H. A. ix. 7, 613. Blinks with both eyelids, De Part. 

 An. ii. 12, 657, Plin. xi. (37) 57. KOI Koviovrat Kal Xovvrai, Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 49 B, 633 b ; does not migrate, Ib. viii. 3, 593, 597 b. Lives 

 to eight years old (when blinded as a decoy) Ib. ix. 7, 613, Plin. x. 

 (35) $2- Is the prey of hawks, (pao~l ras ir(pio~Tpas yivwcrKeiv CKOOTOV 

 TO>V yevuv [T>V fcpairai/], Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620, Ael. v. 50, &c., &c. Its 

 COO, J. Poll. V. 13 f'lirois av Tre/narepay ynyyvfeiv. 



How pigeons purge themselves with the herb helxine, Plin. viii. 

 (27) 41, cf. Diosc. iv. 39, 86 ; feed greedily on irepio-Tepewv or TrepioWpioi/ 

 (verbena), Plin. xxv (10) 78, Diosc. iv. 60, Nic. Ther. 860 and Schol. ; 

 and on the white seeds of Helioscopium, Plin. xxvi. (8) 42. 



Captured by nets (cTricrndcrTpois) or more easily by springes (/Spo^ois-), 

 Dion. De Avib. iii. 12. 



Anatomical particulars. Arist. H. A. ii. 15, 506 /LHK/JOI/ e^et TOV 

 JJya, <(7Tf \av6dveiv oXi'you rrjv aio-^fyaw Ib. 506 b rr]v ^oXr/i/ e^ei 

 rols evrepois, cf. Plin. xi. 37 (74). Said to lack gall, Horap. i. 57; 

 see also Clem. Alex., Paedag. i. 15, Isidor. Orig. xii. 7, 61, and many 

 mediaeval naturalists and poets, e. g. Walther v. d. Vogelw. xix. 13 ros 

 ane dorn, ein tube sunder gallen ; cf. Hamlet, ii. 2. Galen, De Atra 

 Bile 9, states correctly that the Pigeon possesses gall and merely lacks 

 rr\v errl ro) ^Trari KVCTTIV. Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 508 b np6\o[Bov %i npo TTJS 

 KoiXias : cf. Plin. xi. 37 (79). tiepfjLrjv rrjv KoiXtW, De Gen. iii. 7, 670. 



Her wings are covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow 

 gold: Arist. De Color. 3, 793 (6, 79, 96) ol ra>v TrfpurrfpSiv Tpax/yXoi 

 putroeiSft? TOV (paras avaK\a)[j.fvov. Philo, De Temulent. TOV 

 TTJS 7T(pi(TT(pas cv f)\iaKais avyals ov KaT(vor)(Tas pvpias ^pw/tiarcoj/ 

 cxXXarroj/ra Ideas; rj ov^l (froiviKovv Kal Kvavovv Trvponov re Kal dvdpaKoeiSes, 

 en 8e a>xpbv Kal epvdpbv Kal aXAa Traj/roSnTra 'icr^ci ^pcoyLtara. See also 

 Ael. Promot, 480 a, cit. Rhein. Mus. xxviii. p. 277, 1873. Cf. Lucret. 

 ii. 801 Pluma columbarum quo pacto in sole videtur, Quae sita cervices 

 circum collumque coronat ; et seq. See also Cic. Acad. Pr. ii. 25 in 

 columba plures videri colores, nee esse plus uno ; Nero ap. Senec. Q. 



