5$ A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



"EPO^* opvis noios, Hesych. Probably for enoyj/, or else pepo^. 



'EPY0PO'nOYI. In Ar. Av. 303, usually translated Redshank, which 

 bird, Totanus calidris, L., is common in Greece in winter. 

 Used as an epithet ofne'Xeia, Arist. H. A. v. 13, 544 b. 



'EPnrA'l* <pa>di6s, Hesych. A very doubtful word. 



'EPGAIO'I (pcodios, Hippon. 59, ap. Etym. M. Also e8<oXi6s, Hesych.) 

 A Heron, L. ardea ; etym. dub. 



Various species are mentioned : 6 neXXos, the common Heron, Ardea 

 cinerea, L. ; 6 Xevnos, the Egret, A. alba and A. gazetta; 6 do-Ttplas 

 Ka\., A. (Botaurus) stellaris, L., the Bittern; Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609b ; 

 cf. Dion. De Avib. ii. 8 ecrrii/ aiircov yeprj pvpia' 01 pev yap (Spa^eis t' ela\ 

 Kai XevKoi, aXXoi de noiiciXoi kcu pei^oves, peaoi §' erepoi, Kai tols pev ovk 

 earip eVi Tijs KecfiaXrjs nXoKapos, aXXois 5' axrirep ns /3oarpu^ 0ff anTjoiprjTai. 

 Plin. x. 60 (79). 



The above identifications of neXXos and darepias (q. v.) are doubtful : 

 the same words occur in relation to one another as proper names in 

 Apoll. Rh. i. 176; cf. Pott in Lazarus and Steinthal's Zeitschrift, xiv. 

 P- 43- 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b irep\ ras Xipvas Kai tovs rrorapoi/s fiiorevei. 

 Ael. H. N. V. 35, x. 5 oarpea eadieiv deivos eVn (?) ; cf. Plut. Sol. Anim. x. 

 (Mor. 967 D). Its flight described, Arist. De Inc. 10, 710 a, fr. 241, 

 1522 a. 



Mentioned also Ar. Av. 886, 1 142. With ep. paKpoKaprrvXavx^ves, 

 Epich. 49, ap. Athen. ix. 398 D. 



Myth and Legend.— Sent by Athene, to Odysseus and Diomede, 

 as a favourable augury, II. x. 274. Here from the nocturnal appearance 

 of the bird and its loud cry, Netolicka (Naturh. a. Homer p. 10) and 

 others suggest the Night- Heron, Ardea Nycticorax, L., which is 

 abundant in the Troad ; cf. Hippon. 1. c. Kve(f>alos eXdav pwSia> Karrjv- 

 Xio-Otjv. In II. x. 275 there is an alternative reading neXXov 'AOrjvalr) 

 (Zopyrus, De Mileto Cond. iv (Schol. Venet.), cf. Groshans, Prodr. Faun, 

 pp. 15, 16, Buchholz p. 119; for a discussion of important Scholia on 

 this passage, and for notes on epadtos in general, see J. G. Schneider, 

 in Arist. vol. iv. pp. 45-47; vide s. v. ireXXos). See also s. v. &voivala. 



The Heron as a symbol of Athene on coins of Ambracia and Corinth 

 (Imh.-Bl. and K. p. 38, pi. vi). Said also to be sacred to Aphrodite, 

 Etym. M. A bird of good omen, Ael. x. 37, Plut. Mor. 405 D, especially 

 the White Heron, Plin. xi. 37. A weather-prophet, Arat. Phaen. 913, 

 972, Athen. viii. 332 E (where Casaub. reads e'Xtopio?), Ael.vii.7, Theophr. 

 De Sign. i. 18, ii. 28, Virg. Georg. i. 363, Lucan, v. 553, Cic. Div. i. 8, 

 Callim. s. v. Suttttjs; hence beloved of men, Dion. De Avib. ii. 8. 



