14° A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



nEPIITEPA [continued). 



irepiorepiSeus, Schol. Ar. Ach. 866, Eust. 753, Suid.; ircpiorcpiSioi', 

 LXX. Lev. i. 14, Athen. xiv. 654 a; ireptaTepio^ Pherecr. iieraX. 

 2 (2. 322), Phryn. Com. TpaywS. 4 (2. 599) ap. Athen. ix. 395 c, 

 xiv. 654 b, &c. (vide Meineke). 



A Pigeon. See also S. vv. ol^ds, ireXeia, TrupaXXis, Tpuywy, <j>da(ra, 

 <|>dv|/. 



First mentioned in Charon ap. Athen. ix. 394 c, and Herod, i. 138; 

 in Attic, first in Sophocles, then in the Comic Poets and Plato. 



Description.— opvis ayeXaibr, Arist. H. A. i. I, 488 ; ro aeoua oyKcooVr, 

 De Gen. iii. 1, 749 b ; Kapnocpayel kcu norjcpayd, H. A. viii. 3, 593. ovk 

 avaKvTTTei nivovaa, H. A. ix. 7, 6 1 3. Blinks with both eyelids, De Part. 

 An. ii. 12, 657, Plin. xi. (2,7) $J. kcu kovLovtcu kcu \ovvrai, Arist. H. A. 

 ix. 49 B, 633 b ; does not migrate, lb. viii. 3, 593, 597 b. Lives 

 to eight years old (when blinded as a decoy) lb. ix. 7, 613, Plin. x. 

 (35) 5 2 * I s the prey of hawks, (pacrl ras 7repio-repa? yivooo-Keiv eKaarov 

 ra>v yeua>v [tcov Up&Ktav], Arist. H. A. ix. 36, 620, Ael. v. 50, &c, &c. Its 

 COO, J. Poll. V. 13 etnois av irepLarepas yoyyv^eiv. 



How pigeons purge themselves with the herb helxine, Plin. viii. 

 (27) 41, cf. Diosc. iv. 39, 86 ; feed greedily on nepurTepecov or ircpio-repiov 

 (verbena), Plin. xxv (10) 78, Diosc. iv. 60, Nic. Ther. 860 and Schol. ; 

 and on the white seeds of Helioscopium, Plin. xxvi. (8) 42. 



Captured by nets (itno-nacTTpois) or more easily by springes (fipoxois), 

 Dion. De Avib. iii. 12. 



Anatomical particulars.— Arist. H. A. ii. 15, 506 uiKpbu e^ 61 r ° v 

 o-rrXrjva, coare \av6avuv 6\iyov rqv alaBrjcriv. lb. 506 b rf]v x^V v *X €l 

 npos rots cvrepois, cf. Plin. xi. 37 (74). Said to lack gall, Horap. i. 57; 

 see also Clem. Alex., Paedag. i. 15, Isidor. Orig. xii. 7, 61, and many 

 mediaeval naturalists and poets, e. g. Walther v. d. Vogelw. xix. 13 ros 

 ane dorn, ein tube sunder gallen ; cf. Hamlet, ii. 2. Galen, De Atra 

 Bile 9, states correctly that the Pigeon possesses gall and merely lacks 

 rr)v en! rep jjTrari Kvamv. Arist. H. A. ii. 17, 508 b npo\o(3ov e^ti n P° T *l s 

 KoiXias : cf. Plin. xi. 37 (79). Oepufjv rqv Koikiav, De Gen. iii. 7, 670. 



Her wings are covered with silver, and her feathers with yellow 

 gold: — Arist. De Color. 3, 793 (6, 79, 96) ol ra>v Trepio-repcov rpa^Xoi 

 (paivovrai ^pvaofiSets tov cpcorbs avaKkoiutvov. Philo, De Temulent. tov 

 av^va rrjs 7rtpi(TT€pas iv ^Xia/cat? avyals ov Karevorjcras pvplas xP co f JL< * T(CV 

 aXXdrTOvra Ideas; fj ot^i (poiviKovv kcu kvclvovv irvponov re kcu dvdpaKoudes, 

 m fie a>xpbv kcu ipvdpbv kcu a\\a iravrohana io"X ei XP < * > f inTa ' See also 

 Ael. Promot, 480 a, cit. Rhein. Mus. xxviii. p. 277, 1873. Cf. Lucret. 

 ii. 801 Pluma columbarum quo pacto in sole videtur, Quae sita cervices 

 circum collumque coronat ; et seq. See also Cic. Acad. Pr. ii. 25 in 

 columba plures videri colores, nee esse plus uno ; Nero ap. Senec. Q. 



