KOPYAAAOI— KOPflNH 97 



KOPYAAAOI {continued). 

 with the statement that the Greeks probably transferred the legend to the 

 lark ; vide s.v. €irov|/. The legend, which probably includes a solar myth, 

 is very obscure. Connected with it is probably the epithet emrvfi^idioi 

 KopvdaWides, Theocr. vii. 27, but the line in Babrius lxxii. 20 Kopv8a\\6s 

 ovv rdcpois ttcu(kv is spurious and unreliable (W. G. R.). The Kopvbos 

 and eno^r (both crested birds) are frequently confused : the very word 

 Alauda is possibly an Eastern word for the Hoopoe, Arab, al hudhud. 

 Cf. Plin. xi. 2>7 galerita appellata quondam, postea gallico (?) vocabulo 

 alauda. 



Associated with the name Philoclees, Ar. Av. 1295. 



The superficial resemblance between KopvdaXos and the name of 

 "Aprffiis KopvdaXia (Athen. iv. 139) may help to explain'ApTe/n? 'AicaXavdis 

 and the other similar epithets in Ar. Av. 870-877. 



A fabled metamorphosis, Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. 7, where Hippo- 

 dameia is transformed into a lark, on eKopvo-orero npbs ras tnnovs. 



Fables. — KopvdaXos els ndyrjv dXovs, Aes. 209 (c. 55, F. 228). KopvdaXos 

 Kai yeapyos, lb. 2IO (F. 379, C. 421, B. 88). 



KOPYOQ'N, also KopueOeuV akwrpvav, Hesych. Very probably identical 

 with KopuSwy, s. v. KopuSaXos. 



KOPYAAin'N- opviOos eldos, Hesych. Vide s. v. KoXXupiwy. 



KOPH'NH. The Crow, Corvus corone, L., including also the Hooded 

 Crow, C. comix, L. Mod. Gk. Kop&va (Erh.), Kovpovva (v. d. M.). 

 Sometimes the Rook, which only appears in Greece during the 

 winter, and appears to have received no special name : vide s.v. 

 o-TrepnoXoyos. On the confusion in Latin between comix, corvus, 

 &c, v. Wedgwood, Tr. Philol. Soc, 1854, p. 107; also W. W. 

 Fowler, ' A Year with the Birds/ c. vii. Dim. KopomSeus, Cratin. 

 IIuX. 10. 



First in Hes. Op. 747 pJ] tol e(pe{op,€vr) Kpa>£r) Xaicepv^a Kopuavq : cf. Ar. 

 Av. 609 ; Apoll. Rhod. iii. 928 ; Arat. 950. 



Described as frequenting cities, Arist. H. A. ix. 23, 617 b, not a migrant, 

 ib. (cf. Fab. Aes. 415). No bigger in Egypt than in Greece, ib. viii. 28, 

 606 ; alimentary canal as in the Raven, ib. ii. 17, 504 ; frequent the sea- 

 shore, to feed on jettisoned carcases, being omnivorous, ib. viii. 3, 593 b ; 

 Archil. 44, ap. Athen. 594 avKq Trerpair] noXXds ^oaKovaa Kopcovas (? rooks). 



Breeding habits.— Arist. De Gen. iv. 6, 774b tiktovoiv dreXr) koi rv<pXd. 

 H. A. vi. 8, 564 iirtod^ovai be al OrjXeiai p.6vai, Kal biareXovaiv en avreov 

 ovaai bid Tiavros' rpe(povai d' avrds ol appeves Kop.i£oPTes rrjv rpocprjv aircus 

 Kai aiTi£ovTes I ib. 6, 563 b enl riva xpdvov emp.eXe'iTai' <a\ yap fjbr) irero- 

 fievav aiTLfci napaneToixevT]. On their monogamous habits, mutual afifec- 



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