ATTArAI— BEAAOYNHX 39 



BAIH0 {continued). 



nadeiVf vdcop ov Trivet to KaddXov, dXX' alpa, a> Kai 17 ^v^r) rpecperai. Cf. 

 Leemans in Horap. p. 151, and in particular Lauth, Sitzungsber. Bayer. 

 Akad., 1876, p. 78 ; the hawk enters as a phonetic or alphabetic element 

 into the hieroglyphic spelling of bat or ba, and in the second place 

 becomes associated with the symbolic meaning of the word. I suspect 

 that (3aifivK.os is closely allied, especially as a bird like a pelican is 

 figured instead of a hawk in an alternative spelling of the syllable ba. 

 The Egyptian representation of the Soul as a Hawk is also mentioned 

 by Chaeremon, \^i) / Y»j-)7Xio?-^eos' = te/ju^ ; it, and the Harpy-figures which 

 represent the disembodied soul are interesting in connexion with 

 Plat. Phaedr. p. 246 ; cf. Jomard, Descr. de l'Eg. Antiq. vol. ii. pp. 366, 

 381, Bunsen, Egypt's Place in History, v. 135, R. Brown, jun., Dionys. 

 Myth. i. 340, &c. 



BA'P[B]AE' Icpai;, rrapa Aifivcri, Hesych. Cf. apaicos, Pcipaices. 



BAPI'THI. An unknown small bird. Dion. De Avib. iii. 2. 



BAZIAEY'X. A name for the "Wren, Lat. Regulus. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b, ix. II, 615 a rpoyikos KaXeircu Kai rrpeofivs 

 Kai (BaaiXevs' 816 Kai t6v aerbv avra, (pacri, Tro\tp.tiv. Plin. Ep. i. 5> 14 

 regulus omnium bipedum nequissimus ; cf. Plin. H. N. viii. 37. See 

 also Carm. de philomela v. 42 Regulus atque merops et rubro pectore 

 progne Consimili modulo zinzinulare sciunt. Vide s. vv. J3a<n\io-Kos, 

 Trp€a|3us, poj3i\Xos, TpiKKOs, TpoxtXos, TpwyXoSuTTjs, Tupc^os and 

 especially opxiXos. 



BAXIAriKOX. A name for the Wren = PcuriXcu's. 



Artemid. p. 234 H ra §e povaiKa Kai r}8v(f)a>va (pi\o\6yovs Kai povaiKovs 

 Kai ev<pcovovs, coy xeXificW Kai drjdoov Kai (Sao-i\Lo~Kos Kai to. opoia. Cf. 

 po|3iXXos. Fab. deros Kai j3acnXicr/<os, Plut. Mor. ii. 806 E. 



BAXKA'X. Ar. Av. 885. Vide s. v. |3ocjk<£s. 



BA'XKIAAOX- KiWa, Hesych. (A Pdo-Kw, fortasse, ut loquax, Lob. Prol. 



p. 120.) 

 BATl'X. An unknown bird. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b npvts aKa>\rjKn(pdyos. (Gaza translates rubetra, 

 as if from fidros, a name like our ' brambling,' and apparently supposed 

 the bird to be the Stonechat, the traquet of Belon, to which bird, 

 Saxicola rubetra, L., his name is still applied.) 



BATYPPHTA'AH. A Lydian word for a Kite, berime, Hesych. 

 BEI'PAKEX- lepaKes, Hesych. Possibly for fiepaKts. 

 BEAAOY'NHX* rpiopxnsy Adapts, Hesych. 



