riHNEAOM;— nOP4>YPII 149 



ni<t>YrH {continued). 

 Oxon. ii. p. 245 ; Lob. Proll. p. 96. I cannot help thinking that the 

 word is akin to <f>wu§, and its allies. 



nAA'lTOI (v.l. irXdyxos, irXdi/os, Niphus KXdyyos, q.v. supra) = itjtto- 



<fx5fos = p.op4>i/os (Arist). 

 A kind of Eagle. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 32, 6l8 b erepov 8e yivos ae-roO i'crAv nXdyyos KaXelrai, 

 devrepos pe-ye#« Kai poo/*?;. otKel de (3qo~o~as Kai ay<rj fcai Xip.vas. imKaXelTai 

 8e vrjTrocpovos Ka\ pop(pvos' ov Kai "Op,r}pos pepvrjrai iv rjj tov TLpidpov e£o§&>, 

 II. xxiv. 316. 



Plin. x. 1 Tertii generis morphnus, quam Homerus et percnon vocat, 

 aliqui et plancum et anatariam, secunda magnitudine et vi : huicque 

 vita circa lacus, &c. 



Commentators have given innumerable interpretations of this word. 

 If it be really a concrete specific appellation, then the Spotted Eagle, 

 Aquila naevia, fulfils the conditions best : it is large and powerful, 

 but less so than the Golden Eagle ; it frequents water, feeding partly 

 on fish (especially on pieces of decomposing fish, cf. Shelley, Birds of 

 Egypt, p. 206), and partly on waterfowl and sea-birds (cf. Buffon, 

 Hist, des Ois. i. 127, Sundevall, p. 104) : if fxopcpuos, nepwos and 

 (?) KXdyyos are to be taken as descriptive epithets (as they are by some), 

 it is dusky, mottled, and noisy. 



The passage quoted from Pliny is full of fables, and includes the 

 story of the death of Aeschylus, which suggests rather the habits of 

 the Lammergeier (cf. s.v. &€tos, Ael. vii. 16). 



noiKIAl'l. An unknown bird: taken by mediaeval writers (Belon, 



Aldrovandi, &c.) for the Goldfinch, from the statement that it 



is identical with aicou^is, q.v. 



Arist. H. A. ix. I, 609 ; hostile to Kopvdav, tmtg> (rriirpa), and xkaptvs. 

 Schol. ad Theocr. vii. 171 (cit. Schn. in Arist. vol. ii. p. 5) aKavBls 8c 

 opveov iari ttoik'lXov Kai Xiyvpov, KaXelrai be ku\ ttoiklWs 8ta ttjv xpoiav. 



lloiKiXos opyis was also an expression for the Peacock. Cf. Athen. 



ix. 397 C *AvTi(pa>UTi 8e t<m prjTopi \6yos p.ev yeypanrai %X (OV i^iypafipa Ilepl 

 raa>v' MM iv avrcp tw Xoyco oi8ep.ia p.veia tov 6v6p,aros yiverai, opveis 8e noiKi- 

 Xovs noXXaKis iv avrco 6vop.d£ei. 



nONTIKO'Z "OPNII. The Pheasant. 



Hesych. (paaiavoi' opveis iroiol, 01 8e tovs TLovtikovs (paaiv. 



nOP^YPl'l. An unknown bird = Xa0nrop<f>upis. 



Mentioned Ar. Av. 304. Ibyc. fr. 4, ap. Athen. ix. 388 ravvnrepos 

 as oKa nopcpvpis. Ibyc. fr. 8, 1. c. aloX68eipoi Xadi7Top<pvpL8es. According 

 to Callimachus, ap. Athen. 1. c, iroptpvpis differs from iropcpvpUv. 



