30 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



AAKYflN (continued). 



Beloved of the Sea-nymphs, Theocr. vii. 59, cf. Virg. Georg. i. 399. 



Associated with Pallas, Antip. Sidon. xxvi, Gk. Anth. ii. p. 12 ienrmm 

 UaXXdbos d\Kv6va (the shuttle, from its swift flash of colour) : with Hera, 

 Pindar fr. 1. c. 



With ep. govdos, Mnasalc. viii (Gk. Anthol. i. p. 124), [vide s. v. «nra- 

 XeKrpvccv], 



The Nest. — Arist. H. A. v. 8, 542 b rUrei nepl rponds ras x €l P € P lvl * s ' 

 bio Kal KaXovvrai orav evbieival yevccvrai ai rponai, aXKvovibes rjp-epai cVra 

 p.ev Tvpb rponcov, enra be perd rponds, Kaddnep Kal 2ipcovibrjs eTroirjcrev, 

 "cos onorav x^i-pepiov Kara prjva nivvcTKr} Zevs rjpara recrcrapaKaibeKa, Xa6dvep,6v 

 ti piv copav KaXeovaiv emxOovioi, lepav 7raiborpo(pov noiKiXas oXkvovos." 

 ylvovrai b evbieival, orav avpfirj voriovs ylvecrdai ras rponds, rrjs UXeidbos 

 fiopeiov y(vo/j.evr)s. Xeyerai b ev enra pep rjpepais iroielaOai rfjv veorrtdv, 

 ev be rals Xomals e7rra fjpepais riKreiv to. veorna kcu eKrpecpeiv. nepl pev 

 ovv rovs evraxQa rorrovs ovk del avpfialvei ylvecrdai aXxvovibcis fjpepas rrepl 

 ras rpoirds, ev be rco liKeXiKco neXdyei axebov dei. riKrei 5' 17 aXKiw nepl 

 nevre (oci. . . . ndvrcov be criravicorarov Ibelv ahKvova ecrriv' ax^bov yap irepl 

 UXeidbos bvcriv kcu rponds oparai povov, kcu ev roils vcpoppots irpccrov oaov 

 irepunrap.evr\ nepl to nXolov dcfravigerai evOvs, bio Ka\ ^rrjaixopos rovrov rbv 

 rporrov e'pvrjaOr) irepl avrrjs. (Schneider conjectures that this last refers 

 to an Argonautic legend, cf. Apoll. Rhod. i. 1085 and Schol.) The Nest 

 further described, ib. ix. 14, 616 -rrapopola reus a<paipais rals BaXarriais earl 

 kcu rals KaXovpevais dXocrdxvais, irXrjv rov xP<*>P a Tos' rqv be xpdav vnonvppov 

 exovaiv, k. r. X. Kal Konrovn pev cribrjpico d£el ov ra^u biaKt'mrerai, apa 

 be koittovti Kal reus X e P°"' Opavovri raxv biaBpaverai, &anep f) dXocrdxvr). . . . 

 boKel be paXiara itt rcov aKavScov rrjs (SeXovrjs. A lengthy description in 

 Ael. H. A. ix. 17 : see also Dion. De Avib. ii. 7; Plin. x. (32) 47, (33) 49 ; 

 Plut. De Sol. Anim. xxxv; Aes. Fab. 29, &c. Cf. also Callim. xxxi (Gk. 

 Anthol. i. p. 219) cos ndpos rumpoi vorepijs coeov oXkvovos. The descrip- 

 tion in Plutarch ends as follows : epiol be 7roXXoW Ibovri Kal diyovrt, 

 irapio-Tarai Xeyeiv Kal abeiv * ArjXcp br) nore rolov 'AnoXXcovos napa vaco.' 



On the cxXkuoviScs or dXicuoVcioi Tjfjtcpai, ' when birds of calm sit 

 brooding on the charmed wave,' see also Theocr. vii. 57 kAXkvovcs arope- 

 o~€vvri ra Kvpara rdv re OdXaacrav, rov re vorov rov r evpov. Apollonid. 

 xiii (Gk. Anthol. ii. p. I2l) el Kal ev dXKvovccv fjp,ao~i KXavaopeda, dXKvovcov, 

 ais irovros del o-rrjpi£aro Kvpa, vrjvepov. Ar. Av. 1 594, Schol. in Ar. 

 Ran. 1344, Ael. i. 36, Philoch. 180, Plut. Sol. Anim, p. 983, Quaest. 

 Graec. pp. 1809, 1810, Apoll. Rhod. i. 1086, Plin. x. (32) 47, xviii. (26) 

 62, xxxii. (8) 27, Aul. Gell. iii. 10, Sil. Ital. xiv. 275, Plaut. Poen. 145, 

 Casina, prol. 26, Diosc. iv. 136, Alciphr. i. 1, Lucian Hale. 2, Ovid Met. 

 xi. 745, Colum. xi. 2, Dion. De Avib. ii. 7, Carm. De Philom. 383. On 

 the number of the Halcyon days, see, in addition to the above, Suidas, 

 according to whom Simonides made them eleven (v. supra), Dema- 



