nEPIITEPA FlHNEAOvp 



HEPKNOnTEPOI (continued}. 



he has to suppose Tn-epa jSpa^urara (alis minimis, Plin. 1. c.), to be an 

 error for /za/cporara. 



The Egyptian Vulture, Neophron percnopterus, L., Sav., though the 

 black-and-white of its plumage might be associated with the name 

 opfiVe Aapyos-, , and though a comparison might also be drawn with 

 the Stork in connexion with the Egyptian stories of its parental 

 affection, is by no means p-eyedfi ^yia-ros, and is nearly all white, 

 instead of merely on the head. In short, the bird is not to be clearly 

 identified, and the passage, like much of its immediate context, is 

 altogether obscure. 



riEPKNO'l. A kind of Eagle = jJtop^os, nr)TT<xf>6i/os, irXdyyos, q.v. 

 (7repKi/0 = /xeAa?, Suid.). 



II. xxiv. 316 ateroi/ . . . /uop(pi/oi/ drjprjrrip' ov KOI TrepKvov Ka\eov<nv. Arist. 

 De Mirab. 60, 835 < 8e d\taTO)V <t>f)vr] yiVercu, e/c Se TOVTWV nepKvol Ka\ 

 yviTfs. Cf. Plin. x. (i) 3 ; Lye. 260. 



In regard to the obscure words jjiop<j>i/os, irepKyos, irepKos, it is hard 

 to be content with the Scholiastic explanations which treat them as 

 mere colour-epithets : such an interpretation may or may not be true, 

 and various facts suggest that there is more to be learned regarding 

 them. For instance, ennrepwos (Xen. Cyn. v. 22) is said to be likewise 

 a mere colour-epithet (J. Poll. v. 67), but the relations between nepwus, 

 fjiopfpvos, p,\ava6Tos and Xayox^ofos make it at least somewhat striking 

 that ennrepwos, in the only passage where it occurs, should be applied 

 to the Hare. 



nE'PKOI. A kind of Hawk. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620 aXXoi & nrepKoi KCH O-TTIUH : fortasse nee 

 Aristoteli ipsi cognita sunt, Scalig. p. 249. If nepKos and o-Tri^'ay are 

 identical, the former, if it mean dark-coloured, agrees as an epithet 

 with the traditional identification of the latter with the Sparrow-hawk. 



FIE'PNHI, v. 11. nre'pt'ig, Trrepkis, Trre'pnrjs. A kind of Hawk. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620 6 S' dorepia? KCU 6 <pa<ro-o<povoff KOI 6 Trepvrjs 

 aXXotoi. Hesych. Trrepvis, fldos U/XUCOC. 



nHNE'AO*. A kind of Wil Duck or Goose. 



Ibyc. 8 (13) TroiKi'Xai nav\ones. Alcae. fr. 84 (Bergk) opviQcs rivts 018' ; 

 <uKedi/a) yas r O.TTV ireppaTow \ i]\6ov TraveXoTrcs noiKiXodeipoi ravvo'iTiTf pot, 

 Ion. ap. Hesych. S. v. <poiviKo\(yvov' v lcoi> TOV irrjvfXorra TO opveov, TOV yap 

 rpa^rjKov enirrav (powiKovv, f) Se \eyvrj Trape\Kei. 



Mentioned also, Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b (with x^aXeoTr?^, &ig f & c .) ; 

 cf. Ar. Av. 298, 1302, and Schol. 6 nrjveXo^lf vrjTTrj jueV carti/ 5fj.oiov } Trepicrrf- 

 pas 8e p-fyedos' p,ep.vr)Tai fie avrov 2T^O"i\opos Kal*I(BvKOS. 



From the superficial resemblance of the name 



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