KirKAOI-KIPKOI 83 



KINNYPI'AEZ* rh fiiKpa dpviOdpia, Hesych. (Perhaps akin to Kivvpopxu.) 

 KINY'TIAOZ- x a P a 8p l °*> Hesych. A very doubtful word. 



KrPIZ* \i>xvos, opveov, fj *A8a>vis AaKvixs, Hesych. Also Kippis' et5os 

 UpaKos. opoicos fie Xeyerai Tcapa Kvnpiois Kippis 6 Aboovis, napa Ad<a>at 



fie', 6 Xvxvos, Et. M. Cf. Kvpis, 6*Abcovis, Hesych. These refer- 

 ences are important in connexion with the solar symbolism 

 underlying the stories of Ciris, tcrjpvXos, &c. ; cf. the version of the 

 Ciris-myth, s. v. Kippis (s. Kippis), Dion. De Avib. ii. 14, 



Kl'PKH. A poetic or mystical bird-name ; different from, and hostile 



tO, KipKOS. 



Ael. iv. 5 (Teiprjv, pikiao-qs ovopa, npos Kipicrjv i\6pos. KipKr) fie irpos 

 Kipicov, ov too ye'vei popov, dXXa kcu rfj (pvcrti biatpipovra necfxapaadop. Cf. 

 ib. iv. 58. 



Kl'PKOX. A poetic and mystical name for a Hawk: the sacred 

 Hawk of Apollo ; in the main an astronomical, perhaps solar, 

 emblem. In Mod. Gk. KipKivefr is said to be a name for the 

 Kestrel (Heldr.), vide s. v. Keyxprjis. 



In Homer, the bird of Apollo, 8egi6s opvis, 'AttoXXcovos tuxvs ayyeXos, 

 Od. xv. 525 ; an emblem of swiftness, eXacpporaros vcrnjvmr, II. xxii. 139, 

 Od. xiii. 87 ; cf. Apoll. Rh. ii. 935, Opp. Cyn. i. 282 rj iclpKos ravafjcn 

 Tivaaaopevos 7TTepvyearcnv : usually as an enemy of the Dove, II. xxii. 

 140 (cf. Ipr]^ xxi. 493), Od. xv. 526, cf. Apoll. Rh. i. 1049 rjvre Kipnovs \ 

 d)KV7T€Tas dyeXi]86v diroTpeo-oaxri neXeiai'. ib. iii. 543? 561, iv. 486 ; hostile 

 to yjfdp, koXoios, and other small birds, II. xvii. 757. Frequent in Aesch., 

 usually, as in Homer, an enemy of the Dove ; Suppl. 223 iapbs cos- 



7reXeiaficoj/ I i£ecr#e, Kipucov roav opo-nripaiv cpoftco, Pr. V. 857 KipKOi neXeiau 

 ov paKpav \e\eippevoi (note in this passage the association with Egyptian 

 *Ena(pos) ; mentioned in connexion with the Tereus-myth, as metamor- 

 phosing with eVox^, fr. 32, ap. Arist. H. A. ix. 49 b eVov//- ... 6s- rjpi pep 

 (paivovn fiicnrdXXei nrepou \ KipKov Xendpyov : as a portent, pursuing an 

 eagle, npos ioxdpav 3>oi'/3ov, Pers. 205 ; cf. Suppl. 60 oiza rds Trjpeias 

 pijTiBos olnrpas dXoxov, KipKrjXdrov t drjdovos. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620 rpiros t5>v UpaKeav [rco Kpdrei]; ib. ix. I. 609 b 

 dXa>TT(Ki noXepios, cf. Ael. v. 48, Phile, 704, Wotton, De Diff. Anim. 

 vii. 143, &c. In Plin. x. 8 circos occurs as an alternative reading for 

 aegithns\ cf. circus as the name of a gem, similis accipitri, Plin. 

 xxxvii. 10. 



Mentioned as hostile to the Dove also in Ael. iii. 46, v. 50 al fie irepi- 



o~Tepa\ npos aircov pev KXayyfjV Kai yvna>v dappovcri, KipKoau fie koi aXiaeToov 

 ovKtTi : to rpvyoav and to KopcDvrj, ib. vi. 45 ; to Kipur), ib. iv. 5, 58 ; and 

 to mice, Batrach. 49. How it places chicory (niicpis) in its nest as 

 a charm, Ael. i. 35, Phile, 722, or wild lettuce, aypia dpidaicivr], Geopon. 



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