26 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AAEKTPYHN {continued). 



koivus *A6tf*aUtv aXeKTcop, descriptive of a bombastic talker, Demadas 

 ap. Athen. iii. 99 D. 



%T.Tr)$- a\eKT<op douXov 00s <\iuas nrepov, Phrynichus ap. Plut. Amator. 

 xviii (Mor. 762 F); whence Ar. Vesp. 1490 Tirrja-a-ei Qpvvixos &s rts 

 dXeKrcop. 



With metaphorical epithet 8iavXoSp6p.os, 8ia yap ttjs alXijs rpex €l > 

 Artemid. iv. 24 ; cf. Ar. A v. 291. 



Fable of the Eagle which carried off the Cock crowing over his 

 victory, Aesop, Fab. 21. The Weasel and the argumentative Cock, 

 ib. 14. The Cock and Thieves, ib. 195. The Cock and Dog, as 

 wayfarers, ib. 225. The two Cocks and the Partridge, ib. 22. See also 

 Babrius and Aesop passim. 



Fable of the W T easel and the Hen ; as $rj k«t' evvmav avrrjs vocrolcrrjs, 

 oncos e^ei, nvv6avop.evr)v' KaXfos, einev, ay crv anoo-rrfi, Plut. De Frat. Am. xix. 



How the plumage of the Cock outshines the raiment of Croesus in 

 all his glory, (pvo-u«3 yap dvBei KeKucrp-rp-ui ko.1 p.vpia> KaXkiovi, Solon ap. 

 Diog. L. i. 2. 4. 



Kepresentations. — The oldest Coins with the Cock are those of 

 Himera and Dardanus (Imhoof-Bl. and K. pi. v. 38-42) and of 

 Carystus (B. M. C, Central Greece, p. 100, pi. xviii), all of the early 

 fifth century. They recall the Indian Gallus Sonneratii (cf. J. P. Six, 

 in Imhoof-Bl. p. 35), or rather the Gallus ferrugineus or bankiva of 

 Northern India. Cf. also Blyth's note (Ibis, 1867, p. 157) on fowls 

 sculptured on the Lycian marbles (c. 600 B. c). See also Conze, Ann. 

 de l'Inst., 1870, p. 280, on a Cock represented on an ancient relief of 

 Dionysus and Semele (?), B.C. 580-540. In regard to Himera, it is 

 noteworthy that Pindar's twelfth Olympian Ode, in which the Cock is 

 mentioned, was addressed to Ergoteles, an inhabitant of Himera (cf. 

 Buckton, N. and Q. (4) iii. 131). 



The Cock with the Lion is early and frequent on coins of Asia 

 Minor: with Athena on coins of Leucas, Corinth, Dardanus; also on 

 coins of Ithaca, Zacynthus, Argos, &c. 



On a statue of Athene, Paus. vi. 26 (v. supra); on a statue of 

 Apollo, to indicate sunrise, Plut. De Pyth. Orac. xii. 574 (Mor. 488. 30). 

 On the shield of Idomeneus, Paus. v. 25 (v. supra). 



See also s. vv. Pptj-ros, TjiKayos, kikkos, Ko\oi<f>pu£, kottos, KWKaXoy, 

 jxaTTUTis, ke|3pa|, dpTclXixog, aepicos, x a ^ Kt $ tK os, ^M^jl- 



'AAIA'ETOI s. dXtaicTos. A Sea-eagle. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 619 t\ovcr\.v av\€va re p.eyav Kal naxvv <a\ Trrepa 

 Kap.Trv\a, ovponvyiov bi irXarv' oIkovo-i de irepl ddXarrav Kal aKTas, dpna^ovres 

 de KOI ov bvvdpevoi (fiepeiv noXXciKis KaraCpe povrai els {5v6ov. viii. 3, 593 b 

 7T€p\ Trjp OdXarrav diarpifiet Kal rd Xip.va.2a Konrei. [Here Konrei seems 



