IO A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AETOI {continued). 



I. 4 (cf. Keller, op. c. pp. 240, 435). On the sceptre of Zeus at Olympia, 

 Paus. v. 11. 1 (copied on a late coin of Elis) ; and at Megalopolis, id. 

 viii. 31. 4 (cf. Pind. P. i. 6 evdei dva o-Kanrco Alos aleros, Soph. fr. 766 

 o-Kr)7rTol3dfjia>v cu'eros-, Schol. in Ar. Av. 510); on pillars before the altar 

 of Zeus Lycaeus, in Arcadia, id. viii. 38. 5 ; on the Omphalos at Delphi 

 (cf. Soph. O. T. 480), Pind. P. iv. 1 xpvo-eW & tus ahj*** ndptdpos (simi- 

 larly on coins of Cyzicus). Cf. Plut. de Orac. i. 409 derovs nvas, r) 

 KvKVovs f fxvOokoyovcriv curb rcov o/cpooi/ rijs ytjs errl to pecrov (pepopevovs els 

 TavTo o-vfXTreo-elv Hv6oi nepl rbv koX. 6p<paXov. The great mechanical 

 Eagle with outspread wings on the altar at Olympia, Paus. vi. 20. 12. 

 On the shield of Aristomenes at Messene, Paus. iv. 16. 7 (cf. account 

 of shield in Eurip. fr. Meleag. iv, and on the shield of Aeacus, Zr)va 

 vodou, vo<pbv opvLv, Nonn. xiii. 214). For references to coins, v. supra, 

 passim. 



The gable of a temple was called deros, Ar. Av. 11 10, or dercopn, 



Suid. Cf. Eur. fr. Hypsip. Idov npbs alOep' e£apiX\r)o-ai Kopais, ypair- 

 tovs iv altrdiat irpoa^XeTrcav tvttovs '. Pind. 01. xiii. 21 tls yap . . .rj 6ea>v 

 vaolaiv olvvSiv fiaaikea diftvpov txtBifice ; cf. Pind. fr. 53, ap. Paus. x. 5. 12, 

 and Bergk's note ; Tacit. H. iii. 71 ; Bekker Anecd. p. 348. 3 derov 

 pipelrm o~\r]p.a dnoTeTaKOTos ra irrepd : for other references see Blaydes, 

 in Ar. Av. 1106. Compare the Sacred Hawk or Eagle, or the winged 

 solar disc, on Egyptian gables, &c, and on Mithraic monuments. 

 See Bronsted, Voy. en Grece; ii. 154; Welcker, Alte Denkmaler, i. 3. 

 A conventional ornament on the gable even of modern buildings in 

 the Greek style, still represents the degenerate emblem of the Eagle's 

 wing. 



See also, besides the special references to the other Eagle-names 

 enumerated above, kindred mythological references s. vv. yuij/, U'pa§, 

 TrepKyoTrrepos, ^^tj. 

 'AZEINOl', also d^ecripoi' kvkvoi, reus nrepv^iv dTro\apfidvoi>T€S depn } Hesych. 



'AHAH'N, t| [6 a., Anth. Pal. vii. 44, Eust. 376. 24 ; for grammatical forms, 

 see Bergk. Philol. xxii. p. 10, Ahrens in Kuhn's Zeitschr. iii. p. 81, &c] 

 Also drjdovls (Eur. Rhes. 550, Theocr. viii. 38, freq. in Gk. Anthol., &c), 

 dSovis (Theocr., Mosch.), d(3r]8a>v = dfrj8a>v, Hesych., and a^Sco, Soph. 

 Aj. 628. Dim. drjdovidevs, Theocr. xv. 121. Rt. vad, to sing, deidw, &c. 



The Nightingale, Motacilla luscima, L., Daulias luscima, auctt. 

 Mod. Gk. drjdovi, applied to various Warblers. 

 Od. xix. 518 TLavbnpeov Kovprj ^A-oop^is- drjdwv. [German commentators, 

 translating ^Xwp^i's- green, have made many needless conjectures as 

 to some other bird being here alluded to ; cf. Groshans, p. 5 ; Buchholz, 

 pp. 123-125. On the word xAopqi? see also G. E. Marindin and 

 W. W. Fowler, Class. Rev. 1890, pp. 50, 231, and in particular Steph. 



