92 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOPAH {continued). 



Kokdicav Siopi^ei, | Xomov t avro KOpa£ ficop-oXoxos re KoXa£. With epithet 

 Kvavon-Tepos, Eur. Andr. 862. 



Anatomical particulars. — Arist. De Part. iv. I, 626 b to pvyxos e^ei 

 l(rx v P op KaL o~icXr)p6p f tov o~Top,d)(ov to npos Tt]v Koikiau tCivov evpu kcu rrXarv, 

 Xo\r)v 7Tpos rols ivripois. 



Breeding. — Arist. De Gen. iii. 6, 756 b f] pev o^eia oXiydicis oparai, f] Be 

 Tols pvyxeai npos aXXrjXa Koivoavla noXXdias, eicri yap rives oi Xeyovcri Kara 

 to aTopa piyvvadai tovs Kopaicas, cf. Plin. x. (12) 1 5 ; Dion. De Avib. i. 

 9 ov pXyvvvrai irplv riva Tals OrjXelats codqj/ cooTrep yap.r)Xiav nepiKpd^ai. Pair 

 for life, Athen. ix. 506. Lays four to five eggs, Arist. H. A. ix. 31, 618 b. 

 Incubates twenty days and expels the fledglings, ib. vi. 6, 563 b. ; cf. Plin. 

 1. C. Ael. iii. 43 6 nopat; 6 fjdr] yepav orav pr] hvvryrai Tpecpeiv tovs vcottovs, 

 eavrov avrols npoTeivei Tpo<pr)v } \ oi de caBiovai tov narepa ; cf. Phile, De 

 Anim. Pr. vi. 



Habits. — Mentioned among to. Kara voXcis elaaOoTa pdXtora £r}v, Arist. 

 H. A. ix. 23, 617 b. Is a mimic, Ael. ii. 51. PovXctcu 8e to>v opfipav 

 fitp.€lo-8ai ras arayovas, ib. vi. 1 9. ov pera/3dXXei tovs tottovs ovde cpcoXevei, 

 Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 617 b. How the Ravens pick out sheeps' eyes, Ar. 

 Av. 582. 



Myth and Legend. — How there are never more than two Ravens 

 7repl rrjv KaKovp£vr]v Kotvtov in Egypt, Ael. vii. 1 8 ; at Krannon in 

 Thessaly, Arist. De Mirab. 126, 842 b, Plin. x. (12) 15 ; in Pedasia in 

 Caria, Arist. De Mirab. 137, 844 b. In this last instance they inhabit 

 the temple, and one has a white throat. Perhaps the nopals here were 

 priests or priestesses, cf. irAeia. See also Arist. H. A. ix. 31. 



On the KopaKes or Kopdicia, as a grade in the Mithraic hierarchy, cf. 

 Porphyr. De Abst. iv. 16, Hieronym. ad Laet. 7, Diodor. i. 62, Inscr. 

 Griiter. p. 1087. 4, &c. ; cf. Montfaucon, ii. p. 377, Creuzer's Symbolik i. 

 p. 253, Miinter ad Jul. Firmic. v. p. 20, &c. Creuzer (i. p. 431) correlates 

 the Indian myth of Brahma appearing in one of his incarnations as 

 a Raven, and compares in turn this latter story (ii. p. 655) with that 

 in Herod, iv. 15. The Raven of Odin is, perhaps, also cognate. 



The Raven as a messenger of Apollo. Hesiod, fr. 125 (142) ap. 

 Schol. Pind. P. 48 (28) ra peV ap % ayyeXos rjXde /cdpa| Uprjs dno datTOS \ 

 Hv8a> es rjyaderjv /cat p ecppaaev %py dtdrjXa | 3>oi/3c«> aKepo-(K.6p.r) : cf. Ael. 

 i. 47 y ArroXXutvos Oepdnav, with which cf. famulum in Cat. lxvi. 57, 

 and Ellis's note ; see also Bianor iv in Gk. Anthol. ii. 142 &oifiov Xdrpis: 

 Ael. i. 47, 48, vii. 18, Porph. De Abst. iii. 5, Stat. Silv. ii. 4 Phoebeius 

 ales, &c. 



Hence with the laurel-emblem, on coins of Delphi. Hence also 

 Stat. Theb. iii. 506 comes obscurus tripodum ; Petron. Sat. c. 122 

 delphicus ales. 



