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>OINIKOnTEPOI (continued}. 



great Esteem, for its excellent Taste and most delicious Relish, will 

 appear from the following Quotations' (Douglass, op. infra cit.) : Plin. 

 x. (48) 68 Phoenicopteri linguam praecipui saporis esse, Apicius docuit ; 

 Martial, xiii. 71 sed lingua gulosis Nostra sapit : quid si garrula lingua 

 foret ? cf. also Sueton. Vitell. xiii. The brain was also a tid-bit, and 

 Heliogabalus (Lamprid. 20, p. 108) exhibuit Palatinis dapes extis et 

 cerebellis Phoenicopterorum refertas. Receipts for the cookery of 

 Flamingos are given (without mention of the tongue) by Apic. (?) De 

 Re Coquin. vi. 7. I am inclined to believe that such costly indulgences 

 of the palate were often determined by obscure superstitious motives 

 (as are many Chinese luxuries) rather than by real or imaginary 

 refinements of taste. Nevertheless the Flamingo's tongue is said to 

 be still appreciated: cf. Von der Miihle, Ornithol. Griechenlands, 

 p. 118 Ein franzosischer Schiffscapitain brachte mir einige von Smyrna, 

 wo sic sehr haufig sind, und von den Jagern den Englandern zum 

 Verkaufe angeboten werden, welche die dicke fleischige Zunge als 

 teckerbissen verzehren. Cf. (int. al.) the interesting paper by 

 Dr. J. Douglass in Phil. Trans, v. p. 63, 1721. 



<l>OINl'KOYPOI. The Redstart, Luscinia phoenicurus, L., and L. tithys 

 (Scop.). Mod. Gk. KOKKivoKaXos, yiawaKos, KaXavrtfjs (Bike'las). 



Arist. H. A. ix. 49 B, 632 b ; Plin. x. (29) 44 ; vide s. v. epiOaicos. Cf. 

 also Geop. xv. i, 22. 



E s. <f>otVi|. The Phoenix, an astronomical symbol of the 



Egyptians. Eg. bennu. 



First in Hes. Fr. 50, 4. 



Herod, ii. 73 eon e xai aXXos opvis tpd?, rw OVVO/JLO. (poling' eyaj p,ev /UP 

 OVK eidoi/, ei p.Yj oo~ov ypa(pfj' /ait yap drj KOI orrrdvios enKpoira o~<pi } Sia ereav 

 (a>s 'HXiovTroXtrai Xeyovo~i) 7rfVTaKoo~ia>v. (potrav Se Tore (petal, eVecif ot 

 airoOdvy 6 iraTrjp. fort Se, (I rfj ypa(pfj ira.p6p.oios, T0o~6o~8f KCU TOiocrSe' ra 

 p.fv avrov xpvo~oKOfj.a T>V Trrep&v, ra de epvdpd' es ra /xaXiara aierw Trepirj- 

 yrjo~iv o/ioidraros, <ai TO p,eyados. TOVTOV de \eyovo~i p-rj^avaadai rae, e'/zoi 

 p.V ov TTKrra \tyovT6S. e 'Apaftirjs 6pp.ea>p.evov cs TO ipbv TOV 'HXi'ou 

 Ko/j.ieiv TOV Trarepa ev o~p.vpvr] ejU7rXa(T(roj/ra, ai Qcmrew fv TOV 'HXt'ou r< 

 fpw. K0p,iciv de OVTO>' npayrov, TTJS ap.vpvr)s woi/ rrXao-o-etv oo-ov re Swaros 

 eVri (pepeiv' /iera 5e irfipa<r6ai avro (^ope'oi/ra' fireav de diroireipijdf}, ovrw 

 drj KOiXfjvaVTa TO o)dr, TOV Trartpa es avro evTtOevcu, o~p.vpvr) 5e aXXfl e/i7rXacr- 

 (reiv rovro Kar* o rt roi) woO eKKoiXrjvas evedrjKf TOV Trarepa' e'o-Ketfievov de TOV 

 TTarpos 1 yiveo~0ai rcouro (Bdpos' e/i7rXao*ai/ra 8e K0p.ieiv p.iv eV AiyvTTTOV es 

 TOV 'HXiou ro ipov. Cf. Ael. vi. 58, Philostr. Vit. Apollon. Tyan. iii. 49, 

 p. 135 (Olear.), Antiph. Com. iii. 96 fv 'HXi'ou p,ev (pao-i yiyveadai TrdXet 

 (poiviKas, ev 'kOyvais de yXavKas. Artemid., Suid., Ovid, Metam. xv. 

 392, &c. 



