TAfll TETAPOZ 167 



TAiiZ 



Trepidyav etp KVK\OV avra SiaTfTaypfvois 6'/u,/ia<rij>* ra 817 Kara rrjs ovpas 

 \d/j,7Tovo-i,v &o-rrp aVrepes 1 avrcp, K.r.X. Chrysipp. ap. Plut. ii. 1044 C 6 raws 

 evK.a TI)S &pas yeyove, dia TO KaXXo? avrrjS. Cf. Opp. Cyneg. iii. 344 otrcroi/ 

 cv rjfpioiori raws- KaXbs ouoi/oi<ri. Plin. x. (20) 22 Gemmantes laudatus 

 expandit colores adverse maxime sole, quia sic fulgentius radiant : . . . 

 omnesque in acervum contrahit pennarum, quos spectari gaudet oculos. 

 Colum. R. R. ix. 1 1 Semetipsum, veluti mirantem, caudae gemmantibus 

 pennis protegit, idque cum facit, rotare dicitur. Ovid, Art. Amor. i. 627 

 Laudatas ostendit aves lunonia pennas ; Si tacitus spectes, ilia recondit 

 opes : cf. id. De Medic. Fac. 33, Met. xiii. 802. Cf. also Hor. Sat. ii. 2, 

 24, Lucret. ii. 806, Stat. Silv. ii. 3, 26, Mart. xiii. 70, Propert. ii. 24, ii ; 

 Phaedr. iii. 57, &c., &c. It is, however, much ashamed of its ugly feet : 

 Phile, 208 (ruoTe'XXerai de KCU Karaa-rra TOV rvfpov \ opwv dvaeiBels e'/c pvTidwv 

 TOVS Ttodas. 



Its harsh cry, Anaxilaus ap. Ath. xiv. 655 a olptofav raws : Eup. 2. 

 437 (4) p-faoTf 6pf\ls(o napa Hep&ffpovr) roiovde raS>j/, os TOVS evSovTas eyeipei. 



Various legends. 



Uses as a charm \ivov pifav, which it carries under its wing, Ael. xi. 18. 



How the peacock swallows its excrement, lest we should use it in 

 medicine, Plin. xxix. 38. 



A peacock enamoured of a maid, Clearch. ap. Athen. xiii. 6o5 c. 



Fable. The Crane and the Peacock, Babr. Ixv, cxlii (ed. Rutherford) 

 " (TV &' o)s a\KT<op rnlcrfie rals Karaxpvo-ois \ ^a/zai Trrepva-crr]" (pr^a-iv, " ot8' 

 ava> (paivr)" Cf. Suid., S. V. yepavos. 



TEAE'AZ. A bird-name (?). Ar. Av. 168 and Schol. 



TE'TAPOI. A Pheasant. A Median word, whence Pers. tedyrw, 



adopted into Old Scl. tetravi, tetria, &c. ; also Lith. teterva, 



teterwas, teltera, whence Finn. tetri\ adopted further into Sw. 



tjader, Dan. fuir t and possibly incorporated (Hehn) into Eng. 



turkey. Cf. Hind, tittiri, a Partridge or Francolin; Lat. tetrao, 



Gk. Te'rpaf, Terpdwi/. Cf. Pott, Etym. Forsch. i. p. Ixxx. 



Ptolem. Euerg. ap. Athen. xiv. 654 C ra re TMV (pao-iav&v ovs rerapovs 



(al. TfTpa&vas) 6vo[j.dovcriv. \ovs] ov p.6vov fK Mrjftfias juereTre/zrrfro, dXXa 



KOI vofMadas opviQas V7roj3d\a>v CTroirjo-f n^fjdos, wore Kal <jiTtl(r6ai. TO 6e 



/3pw/za 7ro\vTf\fs dTrocfxiivovviv : cf. ibid. ix. 387 e. 



Also rarupas, Epaenetus, Artemid. and Pamph. ap. Athen. ix. 387 d 

 6 (pao-iavbs opvis TaTvpas KaXelrai : cf. Hesych., who gives also rtrupas, 

 Ttrupos, cf. Theophr. Char. vi. 2. Hesych. has further -rerapy?;' (pao-ya- 

 v>v fldoi, where word and gloss are alike corrupt ; cj. rerapot* <pao~iav>v 

 eloos. Taurao-os and reyyupos, Hesych., are probably also akin. See 

 also s. vv. Te'rpa, 



