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AnOYI {continued). 



takes anovs to be the Swift: Aubert and Wimmer (p. hi) take it 

 to be the House Martin (Hirundo urbica L.). The name 7T€rpo^eXiSo»/i 

 applies in Mod. Gk. both to H. rupestris and to the Swift (Heldreich). 



"APAKOI. An Etruscan word for a Hawk. apaKos' Upag, Tvpprjvol, 

 Hesych. Said to be a Lydian word, Jablonsk. in Steph. Thes. 

 Cf. (Mpfai. 



"APAMOI. A name for a Heron as epcoSid?, Hesych. 



'APno'nOYI, s. dpyiirous. A Macedonian name for the Eagle, Hesych. 

 Perhaps a corruption of alyinoyjr, or perhaps of apgufros. 



'APHTIA'AEI "OPNIOEI. Fabulous birds, which shot forth their feathers 

 like arrows: doubtless an astronomical emblem. Apoll. Rhod. 

 ii. 1035-1052. Cf. King's Ant. Gems p. 330. 



'APNEYTH'P. [Cf. Lat. urinator, a diver, Sk. vdri, water (Curt.).] 

 Supposed to mean a diving bird, diver or grebe (Colymbus). 

 Perhaps only a professional diver. Cf. 8uim)s. 

 II. xvi. 742 apvevrripi fWwy. See also II. xii. 385, Od. xii. 413. 



"AP=l<t>OI. A Persian word for an Eagle, Hesych. (Pers. karges). Cf. 

 dpyi-OTrous. 



"APflAIOX. An unknown or fabulous bird ; vide s. v. apirr]. 



"API1H. (Perhaps from rt. of &pir-dfa } L. rap-io.) An unknown or 

 fabulous bird. 



II. xix. 350 aprrrj thcvSa Tavvirrepvyi, \iyv(f)o)V(0 (Eustath. £<£ov Bakdo-aiov, 

 \dpq> noXtpovv). Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609-610 en ol dno ttjs 6a\drTqs 

 £5>VTCS iroXepioi d\\j']\oLS, olov ftpepOos kol Xdpos Ka\ apnr] . . . . 7ri'<pry£ nal 

 apm) kcli IktIvos (piXoi. ix. 18, 617 TroXepios de rrj apirr) rj (pcov^, kcu yap 

 ficeivr) opoioftioros. Ael. H. A. ii. 47 r) 8e opeios apirrj ra>u opvidoov npcxr- 



7T€(Tova-a roiis 6(p6a\puvs dcpapndfci. Cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 4. Plin. 

 x. 95 (74) Dissident harpe et triorches accipiter. Harpe et milvus 

 contra triorchem communibus inimicitiis. The wife and son of Cleinis 

 are metamorphosed into the birds apnr) and apnaaos : Boios ap. Anton. 

 Lib. Met. 20. According to Hesych., apnrj is Cretan for IktIvos. 



Places ivy, /aWor, in its nest for a charm, Ael. i. 35, Phile 729, 

 Geopon. xv. 1. 



The word is poetical. Dionysius (1. c.) refers to the Lammergeier. 

 Some mediaeval commentators (e.-g. Gesner) take Harpe and Milvus 

 (IktIvos) to be identical in Arist. and Plin. 11. cc, as does also Tzetzes, 

 Chiliad, v. 413 IktIvos opvis tLs eVrii/, ovirep KaXovptv apirrjv, dpndfav to. 



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