AI0YIA— AKMflN 1 9 



AKAN0II {continued). 



is in the main mythical : cf. ai/0os. Mod. Gk. tntatil, the Siskin, is 

 perhaps akin (Bikelas). 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3) 59 2 D opvis duavBocpdyos' en\ a.Kav6<ov veperai. lb. 

 ix. 1 ova Ka\ av6<o Kai alyiBco noXefxios [cf. Antig. Hist. Mirab. 106 (114), 

 Plin. x. 74 (9S)]> lx ' l 7 Kaicofiios Ka\ KaKoxpoos, (pwvqv pkvroi \iyvpav 

 cxov<ra. Agath. xxv. 5 in Gk. Anthol. iv. p. 13 Xiyvpov Popfievo-iv duavBides. 

 Theocr. 7. 141 : the Scholia in Theocr. make duavBLs synonymous with 

 dicavBvWls and noLKiXis. Virg. Georg. iii. 338 littoraque halcyonem 

 resonant, et acanthida [a/, acalanthida] dumi ; cf. Serv. in Virg. alii 

 lusciniam esse volunt, alii vero carduelem, quae spinis et carduis 

 pascitur. 



In Anton. Lib. Met. vii, the daughter of Autonous and Hippo- 

 damea is called 'AmvBis and 'AkclvBvWIs indifferently ; note also that 

 her mother was metamorphosed into nopvdos. Hesych. and Aelian 

 have also "iKavBos. (Cf. Anton. Lib. 1. c.) Vide s. v. cuyiGos. 



'AKANOYAAI'X (in some MSS. duavBaXU). Probably the Goldfinch, 

 Fringilla carduelis, L. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 to p.ey€0os ocrov KvnroXoyos. lb. ix. 13, 616 re^vi- 

 k£>s 5e Kal f] Tijs aicavdv\\L8os %x €L vfOTTia' TvtTrkfKTai yap oao-irep o*(paipa Xivrj, 

 exovo-a rrjv etcrSvaiv piKpav : cf. Plin. x. 33 (50). Is hostile to Kopvftakos, 

 Ael. iv. 5, Phile, De An. Pr. 683. Mentioned also Eubul. fr. iii. 268, 

 ap. Athen. ii. p. 65, Plut. ii. 537 B, and by Hesych. as arpovSov yevos. 



The description in Arist. H. A. ix. 13 has suggested to scientific com- 

 mentators (Sundevall, p. 116, &c.) the nest of the Long-tailed or Pendu- 

 line Tits, Aegithalus caudatus or ftendnlintts (cf. alyiOaXos) or Bearded 

 Tit, Calamophilus biarmicus ; but the neat round nest of the Goldfinch 

 would suit the description well enough. The alternative form anavBiikLs 

 is evidently identical with dicaXavOis, and so supports the identity of the 

 bird with a.Kav8is, while its identity with ttolklXIs, also asserted by the 

 Schol. in Theocr., is strengthened by the statements of hostility to 

 KopvfiaXos in the case of both these birds. The latter statement is, of 

 course, fabulous or mystical. In identifying dicavdvWis with the Gold- 

 finch, I only mean that such an identification was probably adopted by 

 Aristotle : what dicavOvWis, civBos, &c. originally meant is unknown. 

 See also cuytSaXos, avQos. 



'A[K]KAAANirp- aKavBvWls, napa AaKw<riv, Hesych. [On various read- 

 ings cf. Valkenaer, Adon. p. 278 ; Ahr. Dor. ii. 69.] 



"AKMftN* yevos at-rov, Hesych. Cf. Opp. Cyneg. iii. 326, where, though 

 uKfiovts are cited as wolves, the description closely resembles that 

 of the mystical eagles in Aesch. Ag. 111-120. 



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