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MAAAKOKPANEY2 {continued). 

 (Belon, Schneider, Brisson, &c). It must, however, be remembered 

 that the bird is mentioned once only, and in a portion of the Historia 

 Animalium that is full of difficulties and incongruities : the epithets 

 associated with it are numerous, but mean little or nothing ; x^porvnos 

 does not occur elsewhere ; dAiWerai yXavttf is a phrase of doubtful 

 meaning and questionable construction. The Aristotelian description 

 seems at first sight copious and adequate, but in the words of Camus, 

 'autant qu'il semblerait devoir etre facile de reconnoitre le Crane -mol, 

 autant est-il certain que jusqu'ici il ne l'a pas eteV The bird irdpSaXos, 

 q. v., is next mentioned, and is in like manner impossible to identify. 



MAPA'IIAI- opviOis, Hesych. 



MATTY'HI" 17 pev <p(ovrj MaKedoviKr), opvis, Hesych. Cf. fxarrvrj, Artemid. 



ap. Athen. xiv. 663 D, &c. 

 ME0Y0Pl'AEr eiSos fwcpwv opvldav, Hesych. 



MEAArKO'PY<t>OX. Probably the Marsh Tit, Parus palustris, L.; in 

 which identification Sundevall and Aub. and Wimm. agree. But 

 there was a confusion between this bird and the Blackcap "Warbler, 

 Motacilla atricapilla, L., Sylvia atricapilla, auctt. The verb 

 /zeAayKopv</u'£a), to warble like the pe\ayKopv<pos, Hero Spir. p. 220, 

 suggests the latter of these two. See also s.v. owaXis. 

 Mentioned in Ar. Av. 887. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 15, 616 b a>a nXturra tLktci /xera rbv ev Aiftvr) o-rpovOov' 

 eatparai flip yap Kal irrTanaideKa, tlktcl fxevroi Kal 7rXetco J7 eticocnv. riKrei 

 §' del neptTTa, a>s <pa<TLV. veorTevei de Kal ovtos ev toIs devdpeai, Kal (36<TK€Tai 

 tovs (rKG>\r)Kas. idiov de tovtco kcu dt]dovi napa rovs aXkovs opuidas to pr] 

 *X €lv T *l s yhvTTrjs to o£u [vide s. v. eiro\|/]. ix. 49 B, 632 b peTafidWovaiv 

 els aWfoovs ai o-vKaXldes Kal 01 p.e\ayic6pv(poi' yiVerai 6' 17 pev crvKaXls irepl 

 ri)v onapav, 6 be p.e\ayKopv(pos evdecos /Liera to (pOivontopov (cf. Geopon. 

 XV. I, 22 evdvs p-era to Tpvyrjrov). dicKpepovai de kcu ovtoi ovOev aWrjkav 

 ttXtjv Trj XP° a Kal T Tl 4 >oiV fl' ° rl ^ I avros ecrriv opvLS, fjdrj a>7JTai Tvepl rrjv 

 p,eTa(3o\r)v eKarepov to yevos tovto, ovnco de reXeats /iera/3e^X?;KOTa ovd* ev 

 BaTepco etdei 6Wa. Cf. Plin. x. 44, Alex. Mynd. ap. Athen. ii. 69, p. 65 b 

 dvo 8' elvat yevr) airov avKaXiba Kal pe\ayKopv<pov. Ael. vi. 46, Phile 60 1 

 top p,e\ayKopv(pov ayvos eKTplfiei. A fabulous Arabian bird, Plin. xxxvii. 33. 



MEAA'MriYroi. A word applied to the Eagle in the Fable of the Fox 

 and the Eagle, Archil, fr. no (86). Schol. Venet. II. xxiv. 315 

 e1(a6e Kal 6 'ApxlXoxos peXdpnvyov tovtov KaXelv : Schol. Lye. 9 1 elal 

 yap ue\ap.7rvyoi, TTvyapyot, etdrj derail/ KaT 'Ap^tXo^oi/ : cf. also Hesych., 



and Gaisford's note. Cf, also Schneidewin ; Farnell, Gk. Lyr. 

 Poets, p. 300, &c. 



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