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ANArKHI (continued). 



Onka, which is said to be identical with Simurgh, the magical 

 bird of the Persians, and which is believed further to come into 

 relation with Athene "Oy<a; cf. Von Hammer-Purgstall, Wien. 

 Jahrb. d. Lit. xcvii. 126, Creuzer, Symb. iv. 397, Boch. Hieroz. 

 » ii. 812, 852. Vide s. v. oki>os. 



"AN0OI. An unknown small bird. The name does not occur in 



Mod. Gk., and like so many of the bird-names mentioned in a 



non-scientific or fabulous sense, is probably an exotic. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b opvis crKa>\r)Ko(pdyos, peyeOos oaov <nri(a. 



ix. I, 609 b Itvttw irokepios' e£eXuiWt yap 6 Imros i< rrjs vop.r,s, noav yap 



veperai 6 livOos. indpyepos 6' eari Ka\ ovk o^vuhtos' pipurai yap tov Imrov 



rfjv (frcovrjv, Ka\ (f)o(3el ennreropevos Ka\ e£e\avvei, orav Se Xa/3?/, Krelvei avrov. 



oIkci §' 6 avOos napa norapov Ka\ eXrj, %p6av 5' e^ei na\r)v Ka\ evfiioros ecrri. 



ix. I, 6lO and 12, 615 hostile to anavBis and atyidos' alyiBov koi avQov aipa 



ov a-vppiywTai a\\r)\oi$ : cf. Plin. x. 74 (95). With the above fabulous 



account, cf. Ael. H. A. V. 48, vi. 19 I8id£(i 8e rats piprjaecri t<op toiovtwv 



o } re avdos KaXovpevos . . . Ka\ 6 pev avdos VTTOKpiverai xpepenapa Zttttov. 



Also Plin. x. (47) 52 ; see also Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. 7, where 

 Anthus is a son of Autonous and Hippodameia, killed by his father's 

 horses, and metamorphosed into the bird avQos. In Phile 705 it is the 

 fish dvdias that is said to be hostile to the horse. 



Note. — As indicative of the mythical, fabulous, and probably exotic 

 element in the above, compare the accounts of a^Gos and aica^is 

 (? aK-av6-[s) f the former o-KoA^KoepdyoSy evfiioTOS, xP° av KaXo?, Ittttc^ 

 ■rroXepios : the latter dicavdocpdyos, Kaicofiios, Kaicdxpoos, ovco noXepios, &C. : 

 aKavOls and a'iyi(v)6os are perhaps two corruptions of the same word. 

 Though the bird cannot be identified, and though it is more than 

 doubtful whether it was ever known to the Greeks, yet Sundevall's 

 identification of avdos as the Yellow Wagtail, Motacilla flava, L., 

 deserves to be recorded. This hypothetical identification is based 

 on the brilliant colour (which according to v. d. Muhle is more brilliant 

 in Greece even than in N. Europe) and on the localities frequented. 

 The Yellow Wagtail frequently consorts with the cattle at pasture, 

 feeding on flies ; it may indeed have become associated with the above 

 fable, the origin of which, however, is doubtless more deep-seated and 

 obscure. 



'ANOnAf A. A bird associated with Athene, possibly the Wight-Heron. 



Od. i. 320 dnefirj y\avKa>ms 'A0r)VT], opvis §' oas dvoncua fiieVraro. For 

 various explanations and Scholia, see Steph. Thes. (ed. 1821), Lidd. 

 and Sc, &c. According to Rumpf, De aedibus Homericis, ii. p. 32, 

 Giessen, 1857, Netolicka, Naturh. aus Horn. p. II, Buchholz, Horn. 



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