l6 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AirOKE4>AAOI {continued). 



former thinks it possibly identical with alyodrfkas. According to Scaliger 

 p. 251, alyoK€(pa\os=alyco\Los. In both passages cited above alyoKeqbaXos 

 is mentioned along with yXavg, and the name suggests a Horned Owl 

 (sic Scaliger, Lidd. and Sc, &c). For other suggestions, see Newton, 

 Diet, of Birds, p. 365, s. v. Godwit. 



AlTYniO'X. A Vulture. 



Etymology very doubtful. The analogy of Lammergeier suggests a 

 compound of di£ or ois (Curt.) and yv\f/, but the word is probably much 

 more primitive and ancient. I suspect that most of the remarkably 

 numerous bird-names beginning with at- (many of which are peculiarly 

 difficult to identify, a circumstance suggesting their generic rather than 

 specific character), contain an element akin to avis, Sk. vis (v. deros), 

 and in this case that yv-^ is the shortened or derived form. The dialectic 

 form alyinoyJA is interesting in this connexion. 



Horn, frequent, with ep. dyKvXoxeihrjs, -)ap^ra>vv^. Not merely a car- 

 rion-eater (as in Hes. Sc. 405-412), but attacks live birds (II. xvii. 460, 

 Od. XX. 322, cf. Soph. Aj. 169 ... . peyav alyvmbv viroSeio~avT€s). Arist. 

 H. A. ix. I, 609 b fxd)(€Tai a€r<u* iroXepios aladXcovi. A portent of alyvirioi 

 in chase of Iprjues in the Persian war, Herod, iii. 76 ; cf. Baehr's note. 

 Is feared by rpcoyXir^s, Phile 692. Sometimes distinguished from yty, 

 Ael. ii. 46 iv fi(6opico yvirav elai Ka\ deroav, eivai <a\ dppevas, Ka\ ttju xpdav 

 7re<pvKevai peXavas (cf. Phil. De An. pr. 127) : Nic. Ther. 406 alyvirioi yvtrh 

 re. Pallad. Alex, xx, in Gk. Anthol. iii. p. 119 *al top p.ev Titvov Kara 

 yrjs 8vo yvnes edovaiv, fjpds Se ^Cuvtcis Teaaapes alyvirioi. Cf. Lob. Path. i. 

 p. 87. 



The metamorphosis of Aegypius and Neophron into alyvmoi xpdav 8£ 

 na\ p,eyedos oij)( opoioi, dXKa eXdrroov opvis alyvmos eyevcro Neocppcov, Boios 

 ap. Anton. Lib. Met. v ; the smaller species here alluded to is the 

 White or Egyptian Vulture, the Neophron fiercnopterus of modern 

 authors : vide s. vv. yuij/, irepKi'oirTepos. 



The (pikoo-Topyia of alyvmos, as also of cprjvi], celebrated in Od. xvi. 216, 

 Aesch. Ag. 49, Opp. Hal. i. 723, &c, is connected with the Egyptian 

 association of the Vulture with the goddess of Maternity (cf. Horap. 

 i. 11). 



alyvmos is apparently the poetic name, applied to the various species 

 which frequent the battle-field, and on the other hand applied to an 

 Eagle in such passages as II. xvii. 460. That the word is an old and 

 antiquated one seems to be meant by Suidas : alyvmov' ovra>s ol miXaioi, 

 aXX' ov yvira. Cf. Bekk. An. 354. 28, Rutherford, New Phryn. p. 19. 



Al'ra'AIOI. Also alyuXio's, and cutc&Xios (Bk., Ar. vi. 6. 3). An Owl. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b, a nocturnal rapacious bird, mentioned with 



ik*6s and o-Kcoyj/, and resembling the former (in size) : dqpevei rds kittos. 



