riEPAIH— nEPIXTEPA 139 



nEPAI= {continued). 

 combatants, Ael. iv. 1. How the Cirrhaean (Phocian) Partridges, which 

 can neither fight nor sing, deliberately starve themselves in order to be 

 unfit for food also : but the singing and fighting birds deliver them- 

 selves up rather than be slain : Ael. iv. 13 ; cf. Athen. ix. 390. An 

 Egyptian dwarf who imitated partridges in their cages, Philostorg. x. 

 11 (cf. J. E. B. Mayor in Juv. viii. 33). 

 The Partridge as food, Mart. Ep. iii. 58, 15, xiii. 65, 76, &c. 



Myth and Legend. — (Besides the stories already told under the head 

 of Breeding-habits, supra). 



On xrepSi/ces in the wars of the Cranes and Pygmies ; Basilis and 

 Menecles, ap. Athen. ix. 390 b. 



An evil omen : Sd/uvi irXevaavres els Ivftapiv ko\ Karaa-xovres tiju Siplriv 

 X&pav, TvepbiKoav avanravToav kcu noirjadvTcov yj/depov, eKTrXayevres €<pvyov, Kal 

 efifiavres (Is ras vaZs dvenXevaav, Heges. ap. Athen. xiv. 656 C. 



A fabled metamorphosis of Perdix, son of Daedalus, Hygin. Fab. 274, 

 Ovid, Met. viii. 236-260. This subject is discussed in a curious essay 

 by Gerland, Ueber die Perdixsage, Halle a. S., 187 1. The writer 

 identifies Perdix with the Lapwing. 



Sacred to Zeus and Latona, Ael. x. 35. 



8C0 e'xovai Kap8ias, Theophr. ap. Athen. 1. c, Ael. x. 35 (in Paphlagonia ; 

 cf. Plin. xi. 70). 



Hostile to xe\u>j/77, Ael. iv. 5, and to ixwos 6 7roTap.oy€ira>v, Phile, 678. 

 Friendly to e\a<pos (hence a stag's head used as a decoy), Dion. De 

 Avib. i. 1 1 ; to (pdrra, Ael. v. 48. 



Use KaXafxos as a remedy, Ael. i. 35, Phile, 723, Geopon. xv. 1 ; also 

 opiyavov, Ael. v. 46, or a leaf of laurel, Plin. viii. 27, or the herb variously 

 known as perdicium, helxine, sideritis or parthenium, Plin. xxi. (16) 62; 

 xxii. (17) 19. 



Proverbial expressions, nepdcicos (TKeXos, TrepftiKos vios, &C. vide supra. 

 Archil. 95, ap. Athen. ix. 388 f. nrwo-aovaav coare wcp&uaa : with which cf. 

 Ar. Vesp. 1490, &c, s. v. dXeKTpuwj/. Pherecr. ap. Athen. 1. c. rj rod 

 nenoirjKoTos top Xeipcova \ e^euriv ukcov devpo rrep&iKos Tponov. 



nEPIITEPA'. Etym. dub. According to Benfey (ii. 106) from Sk. 

 pri, 'to love'; a derivation not much more convincing than 

 the old 6n nepia-o-cbs epa (Schol. Apoll. Rh. iii. 549). Helm 

 (Wandering of Plants, &c, Eng. ed. p. 484), and others compare 

 O. Slav, pero, ' a feather/ prati, pariti, ' to fly/ 

 Other forms are Trepurrcpts, Galen, vi. 708 (ed. Kiihn) ; Trepan-epos, 

 Pherecr. Tpa. 2 (2. 266), Alexid. 2wTpex> 2 (3. 481) ap. Athen. 

 ix. 395 a, b ; Eustath. Horn. p. 1712 ; a form censured by Lucian, 

 Soloec. 7 ; cf. Lat. columbus, Varro, De L. L. ix. 38. Dim. 



