17 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



TPHPflN (continued}. 



Moero, ap. Athen. xi. 491 B of the doves that fed the Infant Jupiter 

 in the Cretan cave, rbv pen apa rp^pcoi/ey VTTO #e<u rpt<pov aWpo> | 

 dp.^po(rir]v (popfowai cm* a>Keavolo podcov. 



Lyc. 87 (vide S. v. ropyos) ; ibid. 423 or' els voBov rpfjpwvos rjvvdadrj 

 Opp. Cyn. i. 73 Tprjpwas e\ov dovaKrjes I ibid. i. 352 eirre yap es 

 a 6oal Tprjpwvf? i'oo<rt | fjn.yvvp.evai oTO/mreoxri j3apv(p()6yyois dXo^oKTi : 

 ibid. i. 385 etapi Ka\ Tpfjp&ves enidvova-L TreXei'my. 



Hence TroXvrp^pcoi/, an epithet of Laconian Messe, and Boeotian 

 Thisbe, II. ii. 502, 582 ; cf. Stat. Theb. vii. 261 Dionaeis avibus circum- 

 sona Thisbe. There is a curious apparent coincidence between the 

 association with doves of the town Thisbe, and the connexion of 

 Thisbe in the story of Pyramus and Thisbe (Ovid, Met. iv) with 

 Babylon, urbs Semiramidis : on the dove-myth of Semiramis, vide s. v. 

 Trepiorepd. ^ 



TPl'KKOr opviQdpiov o Ka\ ftao-iXevs VTTO 'HXeiW, Hesych. Cf. SpiKKtti, 



SpiK^ai, &c. ; also possibly, rpixas. 



TPIO'PXHZ. MSS. have also rpiopxis ; rpiopxts in Ar. Av. 1206, 

 Simon. Iambi. 8. irupiopxts in Cram. An. Gr. Oxon. ii. 457. See 

 also s. v. J3e\\ouVT]s. 



A Buzzard (?), Buteo vulgaris, auctt. Mod. Gk. 



Ar. Av. 1181, 1206; also in Ar. Vesp. 1532, where the Buzzards are 

 called the children of Poseidon. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b eort 8e 6 rptopxrjs TO fieyfdos O(TOV LKTLVOS. 

 Kal (paivcrai OVTOS dia Travros. Ib. ix. 36, 620 Kpariaros rS)V IcpaKcov. 

 Ibid. I, 609 rpiopxrjs Kal (ppvvos Kal o<pis TroXe'ftiot* KaTeaQiei yap 6 

 rpiopxis avrovs. Ael. xii. 4 ; sacred to Artemis. Mentioned also, Lyc. 

 147 ; Plin. x. (8) 9 Triorchem a numero testium. Buteonem hunc 

 appellant Romani. 



Tradition interprets rpiopxrjs as the Buzzard, with which the descrip- 

 tion given agrees save for the important epithet Kparioros. Some writers, 

 e.g.Thuanus, De Re Accip., 1612, pp. 22,100, repudiate the identification. 



The mediaeval anatomists, Aldrovandi, Gesner, &c., sought and 

 found (!) the abnormality from which the bird apparently derives its 

 name : but the derivation is probably quite false, and the word 

 corrupted by Volksetymologie. Is it possible that its origin lies hid 

 under the name ropyos, (q. v.) ? 



According to Nicander, ap. Anton. Lib. c. xiv, Munychus was meta- 

 morphosed into the bird rpiopxis, and his son Alcander into op^iXos-, 

 other two sons becoming Ixvevpav and KiW, both of which are here 

 spoken of as birds. There is, to my mind, an Egyptian look about 

 the whole story. 



