IOO A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



KOPflNH {continued). 

 Var. Phil., i. p. 169 ; Fauriel, Chants de la Gr. Mod., i. p. cix. See also 

 s.v. x^&wy. 



Frequent in Fable, e.g. Kopcovr) koa Kopa£ (the Crow that could not 

 prophesy), Fab. Aes. 202 ; Kopcoprj 'AOrjvd Ovovaa, ib. 213. xeXidai' col 

 KopoovT], ib. 416. 



Proverb Kopavrj o-Kopmov [fjpnaae], Anth. Pal. xii. 92, Hesych., Suid., 

 cf. Ael. vii. 7, Zenob. iv. 60, p. 101. 



KOPG'NH e H AAYAl'AI. The Nightingale ; vide s. v. a.i\%&v. 



KOPfl'NH e H OAAA'IIIOI. An undetermined sea-bird. 



Od. V. 66 ravvyXaxrcroi re Kopcopai \ elvdXiai, rfjaiv re 6aXdo~o~ia epya 

 pJfxrfKev. Ib. xii. 4 1 8, xiv. 308 ol de Kopcbpyaip 1'kcXoi ire pi vrja peXaiPap \ 

 Kvpaoiv ip(f)opeovro. 



Arrian. Peripl. C. 21 Xapoi Ka\ aiQviai not Kopcopai al 6aXdo~criai to nXrjdos 

 ov aradprjToi' ovtoi ol opvides Bepanevovaip tov 'A^iXXetos top pecop. ecodep 

 ocrrjpepai KaTanirovrai is ttjp BaXaaaap' eneira dno rrjs daXdao-Tjs fifftpey- 

 p.ivoi Ta TTTepd cntovo'r} av eo~7T€TOVTai is top poop, ko\ paivovai tov pecop. 



Arat. Progn. 950 fj nov koi XaKepvfa nap' rj'ioui npovxovcrr] | x € ^H- aT0S 

 ipxopevov X^P a( ? vneTvyj/e Koptopt), \ i\ nov Ka\ nOTapoio ifSdyjfaTO p*XP l ^"P' 

 aicpovs I copovs (K Keq^aXrjs, tj nai pdXa ndaa KoXvpfiq, \ rj ttoXXt) OTpeCperai 

 Trap' vdcop naxea Kpco£ovo~a : cf. Geopon. i. 3, J koi Kopatprj eV alyiaXov tt)v 

 KeqbaXrjv Sia/3/Je^ouo-a, r) irao-a prixopivr), Kai pvktos aCpodpoTepop Kpcb£ovaa } 

 op.(3povs Tvpoprjvvei : Theophr. Sign. vi. I, 16 Koptopi] iiri wtrpas Kopvcrcro- 

 piprj fjp Kipa KaraKXv^ei vdcop ar]paip€i' Kai KoXvp,j3a>o~a noXXaKis Ka\ irepi- 

 7T€Top.evT] vdcop o~r)paipei. 



These passages, with which compare Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b, and 

 Ael. xv. 22, denote a different bird altogether from Kopcovrj, evidently 

 a swimming and diving bird, and not merely one frequenting the sea- 

 shore as the Carrion Crow and Hooded Crow do. It is neither a Xdpos 

 nor an aWvia (Arrian, 1. c.) though identified with them by the Scholiast 

 in Od. v. 66, with whom cf. Hesych. Kopcopai' dXiai a'iOviai, KoXvpfiiSc-s. 

 It may be another name for the Cormorant (vide s. v. Kopa£, |3) : but 

 it is not safely identifiable. 



It is apparently such passages which are imitated in Virg. G. i. 388 

 Turn comix plena pluviam vocat improba voce, Et sola in sicca secum 

 spatiatur arena; cf. Claud. De Bell. Gild. 492 Heu nimium segnes, 

 cauta qui mente notatis, Si revolant mergi, graditur si littore cornix. 

 Cf. however the weather-prophecies s.v. koXoio$. It is at least pretty 

 clear that in such passages the Latin poets were thinking more of what 

 they had read than of what they had seen. 



KO'IKIKOI, KOTtKas, kottos, kottuXos. The Common Fowl. Hesych. 



koctkikoi' 01 KaToiKidioi oppiOes. KOTiKas' dXeKTCop. KOTTOS' oppis. 

 kottvXoi' KaroiKidiai opveis. \ 



