KOAOIOI— KOPA! 



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KOAYMBII {continued). 



Ar. Av. 304, Ach. 875, brought to market from Boeotia. Mentioned 

 among the water-birds in Arist. H. A. i. I, 487, viii. 3, 593 b; Alex. 

 Mynd. in Athen. ix. 395 d r) piKpd KoXvp.$\s Trdvrcov Angion) tvv evvdpcov, 

 pvnapopeXaiva rr)v XP 0Lav Kal TO pvyx os &&> *X e h o-kctttov re (lect. dub.) ra 

 oppara, ra 8e noXXd Karadverai. Dion. De Avib. ii. 12 rols KoXvpftois eo-rXv 

 de\ to vr)X eo ~@ nL <f>iXov, teal ov8' av vttvov X l H uv V Tp o( p^ s e7r * T h v J*) v tk0ottp t 

 k.t.X. : ib. iii. 24, capture of KoXvpfiLs at night, with net and lantern. 

 The above passage from Alex. Mynd., so far as it is intelligible, is 

 a good description of the Little Grebe or Dabchick, Podicefts ininor, L., 

 which is a common resident in Greece (Mod. Gk. ftovrrjKTapa). In 

 Arist. De Part. iv. 12 we find a minute account of the Grebe's foot, but 

 without a name. 



According to Nicand. ap. Anton. Lib. c. ix, one of the Emathides, 

 daughters of Pierus, was metamorphosed into the bird KoXvpftds. 



KO'MBA* Kopdivrj, iio\vppf]vioi, Hesych. 



KONTl'AOI- J8os dpveov, rj oprvg, Hesych. It is possible that the word 

 may be connected with kovtos, and that it may relate to the game 

 of dpTvyoKonla, or quail-tapping. 



KOPAKl'AI. Also Kopcuciyos (synonymous according to Hesych.). 

 A Chough. Pyrrhocorax alpinus, the Alpine Chough, and Fregilus 

 graculus, the Cornish Chough ; both found in Greece, the latter 

 more rarely. Mod. Gk. KaXiaKovba in Attica, KopavoTrovXt, in 

 Laconia (Heldr.). 



Arist. H. A. ix. 24, 617 b. A sort of koXows' 00-ov KopJovrj, cpoiviKo- 

 pvyxos. Hesych. 6 peXas koXoios, kcu Kopaidvos opoicos. 



KO'PAE, a. The Raven. Corvus corax, L. Cf. Sk. kar-dvas, L. cor-vus, 

 Sw. krd-ka, O. N. hr'6-kr, A. S. hro-c, Eng. crow, rook, O. N. hra-fn, 

 Eng. raven : the same root in Kpdfa, crepare, raucus, O. H. G. 

 hruofan, Ger. rufen, Eng. croak. Mod. Gk. Kopag, KopaKas, Kop- 

 Kopag (Erh.). Dim. KopaKikos, Ar. Eq. 1053 ; icopaiaaKOs, Gloss. 

 Not in Homer. Poet., frequent, with the idea of ravenous, carrion- 

 feeding, e. g. Aesch. Suppl. 751, Ag. 1473; Gk. Anthol. (Jac.) iv. 179 

 ayKeipai peya delnvov dpcTpofiiois KopaKecrai. Hence Prov. ft* tcdpaicas, Ar. 

 Vesp. 51, 852, Nub. 123, 133, 789, Pax 500, 1221, Thesmoph. 1226, &c, 

 Arist. fr. 454, 1552 b, Plut. ix. 415, Lucian, Alex. 46 (2, 552) ; frequent 

 also in the comic fragments. See also the long note of Photius ; cf. also 

 Antisthenes ap. D. L. vi. 1,4 Kpe'irrov eXeye m6d (prjaiv 'Ekutcoj/ iv rals 

 Xpeiais, els KopaKas rj els KoXaKas eKneaelv' ol pev yap veKpovs, 01 de {tovras 

 eaBlovaiv : cf. Pallad. 32, Gk. Anthol. iii. 121 p /cat X p.6vov KopaKas 



