24 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AAEKTPYflN {continued). 



The Egyptian breed of Movoaipoi, e£ fav oi fid^/xoi aXeKTpvoves yevvcovrai, 

 and on their exemplary patience as sitters, Geopon. xiv. 7. 30. 



A silent breed at Nibas, near Thessalonica, Ael. xv. 20. 



On the breeds of fowls, galli tanagrici, medici, chalcidici, &c, see 

 also Varro, De R. R. iii. 9. 3 ; Colum. viii. 27 and 31 ; Plin. x. (21) 24, 



(56) 77- ^ 



Chrysipp. ap. Athen. ix. 2>73 A xaBcurep rives ras XevKas opvidas ra>v 

 p.e\aivu>v fjdiovs elvai p,ak\ov. 



The fatted fowls of the Delians, and Roman laws and practices 

 regarding the same ; Plin. x. 50, cf. Columella viii. 2, Varro iii. 9, Cic. 

 Academ. iv. 



The large fowls of Ctesias, fr. 57. 3, Ael. xvi. 2, were Impeyan 

 Pheasants ; cf. Cuvier in Grandsaigne's Pliny, vii. p. 409, and Yule's 

 Marco Polo, i. p. 242. 



Myth and Legend. — Pythag. ap. Iambi. Adhort. xxi. 17 akenrpvova rpe<pe 

 fiev, fir) Bve be' p.r)V[) yap /cat 17X10) Kadieparai. Cf. Iambi. V. Pyth. xxviii. 



147, 150, &C 



A white Cock sacred to the Moon, Pythag. ap. Diog. L. viii. 8. 19, 

 Iambi. V. Pyth. xviii. 84 : to the Sun, Suid. s. v. UvBayopa ra <rvp@o\a. 



A white or yellow Cock sacrificed to Anubis, Plut. de Is. Ix. 



The Cock sacred to Athene, Paus. vi. 26. To Hermes, Lucian, 

 Gallus (cf. Montfaucon, i. pi. lxviii,ixxi, Graev. Thes. A. R. v. 718 A, 

 &C.) ; cf. Plut. Conv. Disp. iii. 6. p. 666 6 8e opdpos npos rrjv epyavrjv 

 } Adr)vav Kai top ayopaiov 'Ep/x^v enavloTr)<ri. To Latona, Ael. iv. 29. 

 Sacrificed to Mars, Plut. Inst. Lacon. (Mor. 238 F.). Sacred to 

 Demeter, and therefore not eaten at Eleusis, nor by the initiates of 

 Mithra; Porphyr. De Abst. iv. 16. Sacrificed to Nephthys and Osiris 

 on the 13th of Boedromion, and to Hercules and Thios on the 29th of 

 Munychion, C. I. G. 523, Marm. Oxon. ii. 21, pp. 15, 17. 



Dedicated to Aesculapius, Plat. Phaed. 118. See also Artemid. v. 9 



r)v£aTO tis tc3 'AovcXt/ttioS, el 8ui tou eTovs auocros e\6oi, Bvcreiv nvro) aXe/c- 

 rpvova: also Porphyr. Vit. Pythag. 36, Herondas, Ascl. iv. 12. On the 

 fowl in medicine, Nic. Ther. 557, Cels. v. 27, Diosc. Ther. 19 and 27, 

 Galen and Pliny passim. 



Sacrificed to the Household gods, Juv. xiii. 233 Laribus cristam 

 promittere galli ; cf. ibid. xii. 96. 



The Cuthic deity Nergal (2 Kings, xvii. 30) is said to have been 

 represented as a Cock : for which reason Rabbinical writers, according 

 to Gesenius, connect the name with «?1J5"in, tharnegol, a Cock, which 

 word old-fashioned etymologists found hid in Tanagra. 



An image dedicated to the Twin Brethren, Callim. xxiv, in Gk. 

 Anthol. i. p. 218 ; cf. Pausan. vi. 26. 



How fowls were kept in the temples of Hercules and Hebe, iv rfj 



