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OPTYE {continued). 

 rjeXtoio were observed and their festivals celebrated, as of old in 

 Delos. Cf. (int. al.) Pind. Nem. i. 



The word OPTYrOGHPA, on coins of Tarsus (Mionnet, Suppl. vii. 

 p. 258, &c.) is supposed to refer to a similar symbolic festival (Stark, 

 op. c, p. 44). 



Hostile to neXeicdv, Ael. vi. 45, Phile, 684. A prey to hawks, Ael. 

 vii. 9. Arist. H. A. ix. II, 615 6 iepat- rqv tov oprvyos Kaphlav ov 



KClTfCrOUi,. 



How the Quails, migrating, carry each three stones, to hear by 

 drppping them whether they be over the sea, Dion. De Avib. i. 30 : cf. 

 Plin. x. 33 (sand for ballast) ; cf. s.v. y^payos. 



An obscure allusion in Lye. 401 rvpfios be yeirav oprvyos neTpovp.evr]s\ 

 Tptpcdv (pvXd$-ei poxBov Alyaias aXos. 



Proverbial Keferences— Philostr. V. Sophist., p. 253 (ed. Kayser) 

 /xq yap br) iv Tei^ei €7ri7TTr]^a>p€P oprvyoiv dva>\rdp.evoi (pvaiv. Antiph. ap. 

 Athen. ix. p. 39 2 c **$ bq crv ri noielv bvvdp.evos oprvyiov ^fv%r)V Zx a>v * 



"OPXIAOI, s. opxiXos. Probably the Wren ; cf. TpoxiXos. Hesych. 

 opviOdpiov to>v evavrjTcov' Xeyerat be xnro tiucop o~a\7riy\K~\Tr)s '. cf. Phot. 

 351. 12. 



Ar. Av. 569 fiaaiXevs ecrr opxiXos opvis : cf. trochilus, Plin. viii. 3J, 

 x. 95. Mentioned also Ar. Vesp. 1513. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 yXav£ Ka\ op^tXos noXepia, to. yap «oa Kareadiei 

 rrjs yXavKos. 



A sign of rain, Arat. 1025 op^CKos rj Ka\ epidds bvveev is noiXas dxeds. 

 Cf. Theophr. De Sign. vi. 3. 39, 4. 53. According to Nicand. ap. Anton. 

 Lib. c. xiv, Alcander, son of Munychus, was metamorphosed into the 

 bird opxiXos. 



An eVil omen at weddings : Avienus in Arat. 1. c. infestus floricomis 

 hymenaeis orchilus. Cf. Euphor. ap. Tzetz. ad Lycophr. p. 83 (cit. 

 Schn. in Arist. 1. c), ttoikIXov ovbe peXadpov opxiXos enTt] Kv£ikos. ovb' 

 fjeio-e KaKov ydfiov e'x86p.€vos *p«'£. 



opxiXos and TpoxiXos (qu. r-opxiXos) are probably identical words, 

 and of foreign origin. KopOiXos (q- v.) may be yet another corrupt 

 form. Lauth (in Horap. i. 57, Sitzungsber. d. Bayer. Akad. 1876, p. 107), 

 comparing Copt. OYp<L avis, and OTpO rex, affords a hint which 

 may explain, by referring to an Egyptian source, the origin both of 

 opxtXos and of its synonym or epithet (BaaiXevs. 



'OITOKATA'KTHI, 'OITOKAA'ITHI, 'OITOKO'PAE. In Byz. Gk. for 

 ossifragus. 



OY*PAE. The Athenian name for TeTpi| (q.v.), Arist. H. A. vi. I, 559. 



