9# A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOPflNH {continued). 



tion and constancy, whence their invocation at weddings, vide Ael. 

 iii. 9 {infra cit.). 



Myth and Legend.— Its proverbial longevity. Hes. in Plut. De Orac. 

 Def. ii. p. 415 C evvea tol £coei yeveas XaKepvfa Kopavq, j dvhpatv fjficwTcav : 

 cf. Ar. Av. 609, Arat. 1023 ewedveipa Kopcovrj: Opp. Cyn. iii. 117 alero- 

 evrd re (pvXa noXvfaoi (? 7ro\vKpa>£oi) re Kopcbvai. Cf. also Ar. Av. 967 

 noXiai Kopcovai : Babr. Fab. 46, 9 KOpcavrju bevrepav dpaTrXrjcras, lived two 

 crows' lives ; Automed. ix (Gk. Anthol. ii. 193) fiiov (voire Kopavrjs : 

 Lucill. xcvii (ib. iii. 49) el /ieV £f,s ravabv eXdcpov xpdvov rje Koputvqs '. Com. 

 Anon. 4, 680 (Meineke) vnep ray Kop&vas (3e(3ia>K<i)s, &c. See also Plin. 

 vii. 48, Horat. Car. iii. 17, 16 annosa cornix ; Martial, x. 67 cornicibus 

 omnibus superstes, &c. ; Lucret. v. 1083, Juv. x. 247, Ovid, Amor. ii. 6, 36. 

 Auson. Id. xviii. 



Is hostile to ydXr) } yXav%, opxiXos, irpeafivs, rvnavos, Arist. H. A. ix. 

 1, 609,610: to a.Kav6v\\is, Ael. iv. 5 : to derds and icipKos, Ael. xv. 22; 

 friendly to ipa>8ids, Arist. 1. c, Ael. v. 48. The War of the Owls and 

 Crows, Ael. iii. 9, v. 48 eire\ 8e t) y\av£ iortv avrrj noXepiov, Kai vvKrap 

 cmfiovXevei rols cools ttjs Kopwvrjs, tj de p,e& r\pApav e<eivr)v ravro Spa toito, 

 eldvla ex.eiv rrjv oyjnv rrjv yXavna TrjVLKavra daBevt]. Cf. Jataka, p. 270 ; 



Ind. Antiq., 1882, p. 87; De Gubern. Zool. Myth., &c. Vide 

 s. v. y\au§ for a discussion of the moon-symbolism of the latter bird, 

 and compare the Chinese expression of the Golden Crow and the 

 Jewelled Hare to signify the Sun and Moon. The same legend may 

 account for Athene's supposed enmity to the Crow, cf. Ovid, Amor. ii. 

 6, 35 cornix invisa Minervae. 



Uses dpiarepcou as a charm, Ael. i. 35 ; also pdp.vov, Phile, De Am. Pr. 

 725; and nepio-Tepecova tov vtttiou, Geopon. XV. I, 19. 



A weather-prophet : of storm, Theophr. Sign. vi. 3, 39 edv raxv 8\s 

 Kp«>Cy Kctt rpirov ^ei/xe'pia arjpaivei . . . /cat ox/ft qSovaa : Arat. 1002 ical 

 ijavxa noiidXXovcra [s. KcoriXXovaa, Lob.] | copy ev eo-nepir] tcpeoypov noXv(pa>va 

 Kopoavr) : ib. I022 Kai evvedveipa Kopcovr] | vvKrepov deiBovo-a : cf. Arist. fr. 

 241, 1522 b, ap. Ael. vii. 7, Plut. ii. 674 B, Virg. G. i. 388, Hor. C. iii. 

 17, 13, Lucan v. 556; a sign of fair weather, Theophr. vi. 4, 53 <al 

 Kopavr) eoiOev evBvs edv Kpdj;T) rpis, evbiav crrjpaipeif Ka\ eanepas x fl H-<° vos 



rjo-vxa'iav adovaa : cf. Ael. I.e., Virg. G. i. 410, Geopon. i. 2, 6, &c. 

 A bad summer is portended when the fig-leaves are shaped like 

 a crow's foot, Plut. ii. 410 E. 



The Crow in augury, seldom mentioned in Greek, save in Ar. Aves ; 

 see also Ael. iii. 9, where a solitary crow is mentioned as an evil omen ; 

 according to Porph. De Abst. iii. 4, the Arabs understood the language 

 of crows. A crow on the left-hand is unlucky, Virg. Eel. ix. 15, Cic. 

 De Div. i. 39, Plaut. Asin. ii. 1, 12, &c. ; cf. Hopf, Orakelthiere, p. 115. 



According to Bent, Cyclades, 1885, p. 394, the inhabitants of Anti- 



