EN0YIKOI — Eno* 55 



EnO^ {continued). 



The cry represented, iiroTroTroTroTroTroiroTTonoiroi, Ar. Av. 227, &C. Vv. 

 237, 243, 260 rib no &c, though incorporated in the same speech, are 

 evidently from the nightingale and other birds behind the scenes : 

 Kucicafiav, v. 261, is the owl's hoot. 



Kest. — Arist. H. A. vi. 1, 559 a fiopos ov iroieirai pcottuip tcov icaO' eavrd 

 veoTrevovTiov, dXX' eladuopepos els rd aTeXexv iv rois koiXois avrwp ri'/crei, 

 ovbep o~vp.(popovp,epos. lb. ix. I5> 6l6b pcottiop Tvoieirai i< ttjs dpdpconitnjs 

 Koirpov. According to Heldreich (p. 38) the Hoopoe is a spring and 

 autumn migrant through Greece, but does not now breed there : it 

 however seems to breed in Macedonia and perhaps in Epirus (Kriiper). 

 The story of the nest i< Korrpov dpOpamvrjs (also in Ael. H. A. iii. 26) 

 arises (1) from the Hoopoe's habit of seeking its insect food among 

 dung (avis obscoeno pastu, Plin. H. N. x. 29 ; cf. Fr. coq puant, Germ. 

 Kothhahn, Stinkhahn, Mistvogel, &c), and (2) from the nest having 

 an evil smell from the accumulation within of excrement, and perhaps 

 also from a peculiar secretion of the birds (see for scientific references, 

 Aub. and Wimm. i. p. 91). 



Myth and Legend. — The Tereus-myth (see also s. v. &t)8wi>, dXtaeTOS, 

 XeXiSwy) Aesch. fr. 297, in Arist. H. A. ix. 49 B, 633 a (more probably 

 from the lost Sophoclean tragedy of Tereus, cf. Schol. Ar. Av. 284, 

 Welcker, Gr. Trag. i. 384) tovtop 6' inoTTTrjp enona to>p avrov kclkcov \ 

 7r«roiKiXc0K€ Kd7rodr)\oi(ras e^ti | dpaavv rrerpalov opviv iv navTevxia' \ os rjpi 

 (iev (pavevri SicnraXkei itrepov \ KipKov Xendpyov' k. t. X. Cf. Arist. H. A. 

 ix, 15, 617 a, and 49 B, 633 a rip I8£av /xera/3dXXei rod Oepovs Kai tov 

 X€ip.5)vos, Plin. x. (30) 44. With the phrase €7r6nrr]p tcov avrov kcikcov, cf. 

 Plat. Phaedo p. 86 A <pao-\ 81a Xvnrjv adeiv : also Ach. Tat. V. 5 6 Trjpevs 

 opvis yivcrai' Kai rrjpovai en tov nddovs ttjp dKova. In the use of the 

 word inoiTTris, we have not merely a fanciful derivation of eno^, but also 

 an allusion to the mysteries. 



In this very obscure story we have frequent indications of confusion 

 between Hoopoe and Cuckoo, and the ' metamorphosis ' is in part 

 connected with the resemblance between the Cuckoo and the Hawk ; 

 cf. Arist. vi. 7, Theophr. H. PL ii. 6, Geopon. xv. 1, 22, Plin. H. N. 

 x. 8, 11. See also Lenz, Zool. d. Gr. u. R. p. 318. For the relations 

 between Hoopoe and Cuckoo, der Kuckuk und sein Kiister, v. Grimm, 

 D. M. p. 646, Grohmann, Aberglaube aus Bohmen, Leipzig, 1864, 

 p. 68, &c. On the metamorphosis of the Cuckoo into a Hawk in 

 English and German Folk-lore, see Swainson, Provincial Names of 

 British Birds, p. 113. 



How the Hoopoe first appeared at Tereus' tomb in Megara, Paus. 

 i. 41, 9. The Tereus-myth also in Aesch. Suppl. 60, Apollod. iii. 14, 

 Ach. Tat. v. 5, Ovid, Metam. vi, &c. 



