124 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



OPTYE {continued). 



orav ffMTrecraxnVf eav pev evbia q fiopeiov #, o~vvbva£ovrai re Kai evrjpepovaiv. 

 eav be votos, \a\eTrSiS exovat bia to p.fj elvai nTrjTiKoi' vypos yap Kai 

 fiapvs 6 avepos' bio Ka\ oi 6r)pevovres ovk eVi^eipoCtrtj/ evbias' rols voriois b 

 ov iterovTai bia to fidpos' noXv yap to acofia, 816 Ka\ fio&VTes neTOvrai' 

 7rovovo-i yap, orav p,ev ovv eKelOev napafidWcoo-ip, ovk e^ovaLv rjyepovas. 

 orav 8' evrevdev diraipoao'iv, fj re yXcorris avvanaipei, Ka\ f) 6pTvyop.t t Tpa, k.t.X. 

 Cf. Dion. De Avib. i. 30 ; Plin. x. 33 (23) ; Varro, De Re Rust. iii. 5, 7. 

 The connexion between the quails' flight and the wind is well known : 

 cf. Numb. xi. 31 ; Joseph. Ant. iii. I, 5. 



Modes of capture. — With a mirror, Clearch. Sol. ap. Athen. ix. 393 

 ol bprvyes nepl top Trjs o^eias Kaipov, eav KaTOffTpov e£ evavrlas tls avTQ>v 

 Kai Ttpo tovtov fipoftov dfj , Tpe^ovres npbs tov ip.(paiv6p.evov lv TOO KaTOTTTpcp 



ip.nlnTovaiv els tov fipoxov. With a sort of scare-crow, Dion. De Avib. 

 iii. 9. With nets simply, on the coast of Egypt, Diodor. i. 60. A quail- 

 catcher, opTvyoOrjpas, Plat. Euthyd. 290 D. Cf. Arist. H. A. ix. 8, 614 

 ovt(o be acpobpa Kai oi nepbiKes Kai oi oprvyes e'lTTOijvTai nepl ti)v o^eiai', coot' 

 eh tovs drjpevovras ep.n'ntTovo-1 Kai iroWaKis KaOi^dvovaiv en\ ras Ke(pa\ds. 



Abundance and cheapness : cf. Antiph. ap. Athen. ix. 397 irXclovs 8' 

 elai vvv [ol Taa>ves\ tu>v opTvyoov. Juv. Sat. 12. 97. 



In Egypt, according to Herod, ii. 77 tovs oprvyas apa aiTeovrai, -rrpo- 

 TapixeixravTes : cf. Diodor. 1. c. : vide s. v. xe'moi/. On potted Quails 

 in the Morea, cf. G. St. Hilaire ap. Bory de St. Vincent, Moree, 

 Oiseaux, p. 35. 



Domesticated and pet Quails: Ar. Pax 789 oprvyas ol<oyeve7s: cf. Ar. 

 Fr. 36; Arist. Probl. x. 12, 1 ; Plut. V. Alcib. i. 195 E, Mor. ii. 799 D ; 

 Varro, iii. 5, 2 ; M. Anton, i. 6. A lover's gift, Ar. Av. 707, Plat. Lys. 

 211 E: cf. Plaut. Capt. v. 4, 5 ; vide Jacobs ad Anthol. x. p. 13. 

 Hence <pi\6pTv£, Plat. Lys. 212 D ; <pi\opTvyoTpo<pea), Artemid. iii. 5, &c. 



Quail-fights. Lucian, Anach. ^7 (2, 918); Plat. Lys. 211 E; Plut. 

 i. 930 E, cock and quail-fights between Antony and Caesar (cf. Ant. and 

 CI. ii. 4 ' and his quails ever Beat mine, inhoop'd at odds ') ; ibid. ii. 207 B 

 how in Egypt a procurator of Augustus killed and ate a victorious 

 quail, and how retribution fell on him ; Ovid, Amor. ii. 6, 27, &c. This 

 sport, still common among the Chinese, Malays, &c, was practised 

 in Italy in Aldrovandi's time (Ornith. ii. p. 74 : cf. Voss., De Idol. c. 86, 

 p. 596). For a Chinese picture of a quail-fight, showing the 'hoop' 

 or TijXia (cf. supra, p. 22, s. v. dXeKTpuwi'), see Douce's Illustr. of 

 Shakspeare, p. 367 ; cf. also Bell's Travels in China, i. p. 404 (8vo 

 ed.). See also Becker's Charicles. The birds are said to have been 

 stimulated to fight with bells, cf. Schol. in Ar. Lys. 485 (aKabaviaTov) ; 

 see also Aristarch. ap. Harpocrat. s. v. SieicwSwiaac. 



Quail-striking, opTvyoKonla, Jul. Pollux, ix. 107. The player was 

 opTvyoKonosj Plat. Com. IlepiaXy. 4, ap. Athen. xi. 506 D or crrvcpoKOTros. 



