130 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



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white ones ; cf. also Herod, ii. 55 peXatvai 7rcXeiddes. lleXaa seems 

 lost as a current word in Mod. Gk. : it does not occur in 

 Aristophanes, save in the Homeric parody in Ar. A v. 575. 

 In Horn, frequent ; the only Homeric word for pigeon, save for the 

 occurrence of cfidaaa in the compound cpacraocpouos, II. xv. 238. Usually 

 with epithet Tpr\p<av q.v., a word of equally doubtful etymology, the received 

 derivation from rpeco appearing dubious in the light of such pigeon- 

 names as rpvywv, turtur, ^in , &c. ; cf. noXvrprjpcou (descriptive epithet 

 of the towns Thisbe and Messe), II. ii. 502, 582, and Lye. 87, 423, where 

 Tpr)pa>v=ne\eia : see also Eustath. Horn. II. pp. 1262, 171 2, Athen. xi. 

 490 D. A prey to tprjg, II. xxi. 493, to KtpKos, II. xxii. 139; cf. Aesch. 

 Pr. V. 858. Messengers of Zeus, when Rhea protected him from 

 Cronos, Od. xii. 62 neXeLat \ rprjpccves, rat t dp,^pocrtr]v Aii 7rarp\ (frepovaiv. 



As ornaments of Nestor's cup, II. xi. 634 dotal de 7reXetddes dpfts 

 etcaarov [ovas] \ xpv<r€iai vepedovTo, cf. Athen. 1. c. Captured in springes, 

 Od. xxii. 468 ; cf. Dion. De Avib. iii. 12 (s. v. epdercra). In Homer the 

 pigeon is never spoken of as a domesticated bird, and is definitely 

 a wild one in II. xxi. 139, and Od. xxii. 468. II. xxi. 495 suggests the 

 Rock-dove, C. livia : fj pd ff tup' "tprjKos ko[Xt]p elcrenraro nerprjv, | xqpapov : 

 cf. Q. Smyrn. xii. 12 tpr]^ creve neXetav' enetyopevr] 6 V ' apa Keivrj, | ^rjpapbv it 

 7Terpr]s KaTebvcraro : cf. also Virg. Aen. v. 213. 



In Aristotle distinguished from Trepiorepd : H. A. v. 13, 544 b erepov 

 i(TTi 7T€pi(TT€pa kcu neXeids' eXdrraiV pev ovv f) ireXeids, TiOaaabv de yiverai 

 paXXov r] 7repi(TTepd. 7] de neXeias kcu peXav Kai piKpbv Kai epvOponovv Koi 

 rpaxvnow, 5i6 kcu oidels rpecfyei. [The contrary stated, Athen. ix. 394 C] 

 lb. viii. 12, 597 h dnaipovai de Kai al cpdrrai koi ai neXuddes, Kai ov ^eipa- 

 {ovcri, al de nepiarepal Karap.evovcjiv. According to Sundevall, neXeia is 

 here in Aristotle the Stock-dove, C. oenas, ol^ds being the Rock-pigeon, 

 C. livia, <|>d*|/ or <|)dTTa, the Ring-dove, C. palumbus, and irepiorTcpd, 

 the Domestic Pigeon. Aubert and Wimmer, on the other hand, take 

 olvds as the Stock-dove, and leave ireXeia in doubt. For my part, I do 

 not think the Stock-dove was recognized as a distinct species, but was 

 included, as in Mod. Gk. (Erhard, Heldreich), under the name cpdaaa 

 with the Ring-dove. Excluding the Turtle-doves, there then only 

 remain the wild Rock-pigeon (Mod. Gk. dypiouepiaTepi) and the 

 domestic variety ; and I imagine that both olvds (q. v.) and 7reXeia 

 refer, in Aristotle, to the wild Rock-pigeon, and nepio-repd especially to 

 the Tame Pigeon; cf. also Moeris (p. 405, ed. Koch, 1830) eiwGds, 77 



KaroiKidios nepiaTepd, 17 yap dypia, 7reXeids. The account in Arist. H. A. 

 v. 13 is corrupt and not to be too much depended on, especially in 

 view of the discrepant quotation in Athenaeus. The chief difficulty 

 in the whole interpretation is the passage H. A. viii. 12, where it 

 is asserted that both cpdrrai and neXeiddes migrate and do not remain 



