IEMIPAMII ZKflvJ, 



IITTH (continued^. 



Mod. Gk. aKa\o6apT)s, <r(f)vpiKTfjs, and To-ojravoirovXt, i. e. the little 

 shepherd (Heldr.). 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 b aerep TroXffiiov' Karayvvei yap TO. am rov OCTOV : 

 ibid. 17, 6l6b /ta^i/no?, rrjv de dtdvotav cvdiKros Kal fvdr)p.a)V Kal ev/3iWoy, 

 Kal Xe'yerat {^ap/xaxeia eivai dia TO nciXvidpis civaC TroXvyovos 8e Kal 



Callim. Fr. 173 (in Etym. M.) 6 8' rj\e6s ovS' eVi O-ITTTJV jSXev/ra?. 

 A good omen to lovers, Schol. in Ar. Av. 705 ; fr. ap. Suid. cyw /ueV 

 w AevKiTrnr) dfia criTTjy. 



21'TTOI" crirrov, ol pev y\av<a' YJ Kia-crav' rj iepaKa, Hesych. 



[O-I'TT;;, a-lrras and a-irros are all doubtful and corrupt words. They 

 are probably akin to the equally corrupt and obscure TTITTO), which bird, 

 like O-ITTTJ, is allied to the woodpeckers and hostile to the eagle.] 



ZKAAl'APIZ. (MSS. have KaXidpiSj o-Kavftpis, o-Ka\i8p$. Schneider sug- 



gests o-Ka\v8pis. Possibly identical with o-iaXe^Spis, q.v.) 

 An unknown bird ; taken by Belon and later writers for a species 

 of Sandpiper, e. g. Totanus calidris, auctt., the Redshank : but 

 any one whom it pleases may interpret it as a Wagtail, whose 

 gray plumage is enlivened with a ' noiKiXla ' of yellow. 

 Arist. H. A. viii. 3? 593 ^ r " wpaiov Ktve'i, TroiKiXiav fX l ) T 

 (rnodoeiftes (mentioned with ffgocnXaf, K/yxXor, and nvyapyos). 



IKI'AAOI- iKrlvos, Hesych. Cf. pdcriciXXos. 

 IKlV. Vide S. v. 



IKOAO'flAE. Generally supposed, and by all the older commentators, 

 to be identical with dcncaXwiras, the Woodcock. Mod. Gk. 

 aoncaXoTra/cas-, 6pvi6ovKa\La (Coray), t-vKoKorra (Heldr.), v\6pvi6a 

 (Bik.), /iTre/caro-a ( = Fr. because]. With <7-KoX-o7ra, cf. Gk. tr-icoX-o^, 

 o-/caXov^, o-7raXa : rt. of L. cutter, &c. 

 Arist. H. A. ix. 8, 614 eVi SeVSpov ov KaBi&i, aXX' eVi rrjs yfjs. Nemesian. 



Aucup. fr. 21 (in Wernsdorf' s Poet. Lat. Min.) praeda est facilis et 



amoena Scolopax. 



[(T7raXa| or o-KiiXo-^f in Theophr. De Sign. Temp. p. 439, ed. Heinsii, 



is sometimes taken to apply not to the mole but to this bird : cf. 



J. G. Schneider, in Arist., vol. iv. p. 131.] 



Etym. doubtful. The derivation from o-KeVrw is not more 

 certain than the older one from ovco>7n-a> (Athen. and Aelian). 

 The o- may be a late prefix, from the false analogy with o-KwnTeiv. 

 According to Alex. Myndius, ap. Athen. ix. 391 b, Homer wrote 



