2 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AETOI {continued). 



European languages is so striking, that I suspect for it a non- Aryan 

 root. 



An Eagle, the generic word ; see also dKuXeifo dXidcros, drrap, 

 dpyio-irous, ap§i<f>os, dcrrepias, evpup.ehoiv, i^i^os, ISewy, KUKiaas, 

 Xay<o£6Vos, fieXai/deTOS, popcfwos, htjtto^oVos, TrXdyyos, iruyapyos, 

 XpuadeTos, &c: v. Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b, ix. 32, 618 b, 619 a ; on the 

 species of Eagles cf. Cuvier ad Plin. x. 3, ed. Grandsaigne, whose iden- 

 tifications, however, like those of Sundevall (Thierarten des Aristoteles, 

 Stockholm, 1863, also in Swedish, K. Akad. Wetensk. Stockholm, 1862), 

 are in my opinion to be received with caution. Besides the Osprey, 

 Pandio?i Halia'etus, and the Short-toed Eagle, Circa'etus gallicus, the 

 following true Eagles are regular inhabitants of Greece, A. Chrysaetus, 

 A. heliaca, A. naevia, A. Bonelli, A. fie7inata, and Haliaetus albicilla. 

 Though occasional passages may be descriptive of the habits of one 

 rather than another of these species, there is no evidence of any of 

 these having been recognized as distinct : such names as akuieros, p.e\av- 

 dcTos and \aya)(f>6vos have a mystical or symbolic rather than a de- 

 scriptive or specific meaning. On the confusion of the Eagles with the 

 Vultures, vide infra. Eagles are common in Greece, though (Xen. 

 Venat. v. 24) absent from many of the islands, for want of hills. On 

 the Eagle in classical art and mythology cf. O. Keller, Thiere d. cl. 

 Alterthums, pp. 236-276, 430-452. 



Epithets. — Hom. dyKvkoye'Cki]s (cf. Ar. Eq. 197 PvpaaieTOs ayKuXo^eiXr;? 

 S. -^VjX?7sr), aWav, 8e£i.6s, Kapnaros Kpi cdkkttos n€T€r]vS)P } pekas (cf. Aesch. 

 Ag. 115, Plut. Amat. iv. 9), ogvraros 8epKea0ai, reXeioraroy (II. viii. 247), 

 vyjnneTrjs s. v-^nreTr^is (cf. Soph. Oenom. fr. 423, Horap. ii. 56, &c), Ait 

 (piXraros (II. xxiv. 310). Hes. Th. 523 ravimrepos (cf. Pind. P. v. 112, 

 II. xxiv. 317, Orphic. Lith. 124). Pind. P. i. 6, v. 48, Isthm. vi dpxbs 

 oloavcov, 01. xiii. 21 fiaaiKevs oiavcov (cf. Aesch. Ag. 115 ; Ar. Eq. 1087 ; 

 Ael. ix. 2 ; Nic. Ther. 448 ; Callim. Hymn. Jov. 68 ; Ovid, Met. iv. 362 ; 

 the Eagle was an Egyptian symbol for the king, according to Horap. 

 ii. 56, and was worshipped as a royal bird by the Thebans, Diod. Sic. 

 i. 87, 9) ; a royal emblem also at Babylon, Philostr. Imagg. 386 K. 

 Aesch. Pr. V. 1024 Ai6s nryvos kvcov, dacpoivos ahros : Soph. fr. 766 

 o-KrjTTTofidpoov aleros, kv<ov Aios (cf. Ar. Av. 515, Pind. P. i. 6). Aesch. 

 Suppl. 212, Soph. Aj. 1040, Eur. Ion 159, &c. : — Zr]u6s opvis, Zt]v6s aUros, 

 Zi]v6s Krjpv£. Antip. Sid. xcii in Gk. Anth. (Jac.) ii. 2>3 "Opvi, Aios 

 Kpovidao dtdnTope. Arat. Phen. 522 Zrjvos ptyas ayye\os. Schol. Pind. 

 I. v. 53 dioTTopiros aUros. See also Porphyr. De Abstin. iii. 5 opviOes rols 

 dvOpcoirois elcr\ nfjpvKes aWoi aXXoov dccov, Aios p*v deros, k. r. X. Nonn. 

 Dionys. xxiv. I20 aleros fjyepoveve bC rjepos avrirvnos Ztvs. Ar. A v. 1 248 

 (Aesch. fr. Niob.) nvpcpopoio-iv aUroig. Bianor in Gk. Anth. ii. 143 rjepo- 

 divrjs aleros, oloovav povvos inovpavios. Cf. Eurip. fr. 866 arras pev drjp 



