44 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



TEPANOI [continued). 



Animadv. ad Adagia Erasmi, p. 10; Stat. Silv. v. 3. 152 volucrumque 

 precator Ibycus. Evidently alluded to also in Ar. Av. 1427. See also 

 Welcker's interesting article, Die Kraniche des Ibykos, Rhein. Mus. i. 

 pp. 401-413, 1833- 



A weather-prophet. — A sign of early winter, or of storm, lav Trpou 

 TrerovTai kcu ddpooi, koi lav viroaTpacpaxri neropevoi, Theophr. Sign. iii. I, 

 Geopon. i. 3. 12 ; cf. Hes. Op. et D. 629, and the imitation of the line 

 in Ar. Av. 711 ; al icXayyal /caXotW ofifipovs, Ael. i. 44; cf. Virg. Aen. 

 x. 265, Georg. i. 351, yj^ (cf. Milton, 'With clang despise the ground, 

 under a cloud In prospect '). How mariners return to port if they see 

 the cranes flying the contrary way, Ael. iii. 14, cf. vii. 7. A sign of 

 fair weather, Ka\ §' (iv nov yepavoi p.aXaK.rjs irpoTrdpoide yaXrjvrjs, aacfiaXeais 

 ravvaaiev eva bp6p.ov ffXiOa Trdaai, Arat. Phen. IOIO ; cf. Theophr. Sign. 

 IV ov yap nerovrai np\v rj av neTop,€voi Kadapa i^a>o~iv. 



The crane was not molested, Lucill. 66 (Gk. Anthol. iii. p. 42) ov8t\s 

 7rp6s yepdvovs noXtfios : cf. Ael. ii. 1 ; see however Babr. 13. 



Mentioned as food, Plat. Polit. p. 114, Athen. p. 131, Plut. De Esu 

 Cam. ii : Plin. x. 30, Hor. Sat. ii. 8, 86, Epod. ii. 35, Apic. vi. 2. 

 Its brain used as an aphrodisiac, Ael. i. 44. How captured, by means 

 of a beetle inside a dry gourd, Dion. De Avib. iii. II. Grues mansue- 

 factae, Plin. H. N. x. 23. 



Their plumes carried in front of the shield by certain Eastern tribes, 

 Herod, vii. 70 ; cf. iv. 175. 



The Dance called yepavos, Plut. Theseus, xxi. 1. 9 D, Luc. Salt. 34, 

 J. Poll. iv. 20 (101). Perhaps described in Callim. Delian Hymn, 

 515, &c. ; still danced in Greece under the name of fcavSiwrj^, vide 

 Guys, Voy. littdr., lettre xiii ; represented in Leroy, Ruines des plus 

 beaux monuments de la Grece (2nd ed.), p. 22, pi. x (Ricard, Vies 

 de Plut. i. p. 137, 1829). The dictionaries usually say that the dance 

 mimics the flight of the cranes, which is incorrect : the dancing 

 of Cranes may be seen in the opening of the year in any zoological 

 garden. 



A comic simile, dvvTrodrjTos opOpov 7repi7raretv yepavos, Aristopho 3. 

 361 (Mein.). 



Fables. — yepavoi <a\ yecopyos, Aesop, 93 (Babr. 26). y. Kai XV V€S ) 4 21 - 

 y. Ka\ a\o)7rr;^, 34 (Plut. Mor. 614 F). y. Ka\ Xvkos, 276 b. y. Ka\ raws, 



397 (Babr. 65). 



See also ayop, aep-njs. 



n'NII (s. yvLs). A Tuscan word for a Crane = yepavos, Hesych. 



TAAY'KION. A kind of Duck. 



Perhaps the Golden-eye, Anas clangula, L., Clangula glaucion, 

 Bonap., which winters in considerable numbers in all the waters of Greece 



