HHNEACW nOP<t>YPII 149 



ni<t>Yr= (continued}. 



Oxon. ii. p. 245 ; Lob. Proll. p. 96. I cannot help thinking that the 

 word is akin to <|>wu, and its allies. 



nAA'lTOI (v. 1. irXdyxos, ir\(lt/os, Niphus icXdyyos, q. v. supra) = J'TJTTO- 



<j)6t/os = fJLopc^j'os (Arist.). 

 A kind of Eagle. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 6l8b erepoi/ e yevos derov eVrii/ 6 7r\dyyos KaXemu, 

 devrepos peyedei KOI pupy. ot/cei de (3f]<r<ras Kal ciyKrj KOI Ai/Liras 1 . eniKaXelrai 

 6e vr)TTO(povos Kal p.6p<pvos' ov Kal f 'Op,rjpos fJ,ep,vr]Tat ev rfj rov Hpid/JLOV eda), 

 II. xxiv. 316. 



Plin. x. i Tertii generis morphnus, quam Homerus et percnon vocat, 

 aliqui et plancum et anatariam, secunda magnitudine et vi : huicque 

 vita circa lacus, &c. 



Commentators have given innumerable interpretations of this word. 

 If it be really a concrete specific appellation, then the Spotted Eagle, 

 Aquila naevia, fulfils the conditions best : it is large and powerful, 

 but less so than the Golden Eagle ; it frequents water, feeding partly 

 on fish (especially on pieces of decomposing fish, cf. Shelley, Birds of 

 Egypt, p. 206), and partly on waterfowl and sea-birds (cf. Buffon, 

 Hist, des Ois. i. 127, Sundevall, p. 104) : if popcpvos, nepwos and 

 (?) K\dyyos are to be taken as descriptive epithets (as they are by some), 

 it is dusky, mottled, and noisy. 



The passage quoted from Pliny is full of fables, and includes the 

 story of the death of Aeschylus, which suggests rather the habits of 

 the Lammergeier (cf. s.v. de-ros, Ael. vii. 16). 



noiKIAl'l. An unknown bird: taken by mediaeval writers (Belon, 

 Aldrovandi, &c.) for the Goldfinch, from the statement that it 

 is identical with &Ka.vQi<s, q.v. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 ; hostile to Kopu8&>i>, nnro) (niTrpn), and ^Xwpeus. 

 Schol. ad Theocr. vii. 171 (cit. Schn. in Arist. vol. ii. p. 5) aKavdls de 

 opveov eori TTOIKI\OV nal \iyvpov, KaAemu Se Kal 7roiKi\ls dia TTJV ^poi'aj/. 



FloiKiXos op^is was also an expression for the Peacock. Cf. Athen. 



ix. 397 C 'Ai/TKpcojri Se T<B pfjropt \6yos jueV yfypanrai e^cov eVi-ypa/njua Ilept 

 Ta>v' Kal ev avrcp roi Xdya) ovdepia p.Vfia TOV ovo^iaros yivfrai, opveis de TTOLKL- 

 \ovs TroXXaKiy ev avrcS ovo/jid^fi. 



nONTIKO'Z "OPNII. The Pheasant. 



Hesych. (paa-iavoi' opveis TTOIOI, 01 de TOVS TIo^TiKovs (pacriv. 



nOP4>YPri. An unknown bird = Xa6nrop(|)upts. 



Mentioned Ar. Av. 304. Ibyc. fr. 4, ap. Athen. ix. 388 raz/uTrrepo? 

 cos oKa Kopcpvpis. Ibyc. fr. 8, 1. C. alo\68eipoi \adinop(pvpides. According 

 to Callimachus, ap. Athen. 1. c., 7rop<pvpis differs from 7rop0vptW. 



