l6o A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



ITPOY0OKAMHAOI {continued). 



ex ei aX\a ^jyXciy. tovtov 8' a'inov on to p.eye8os ovk opviOos e^ei dWa Terpd- 

 nodos : cf. Plin. x. I, x. (22) 29, xi. (37) 47, &c. Arist. H. A. ix. 15, 616 b, 

 lays more eggs than any other bird (the fact being that several lay 

 in one nest), cf. De Gen. iii. 1, 749 b, and Ael. iv. 37. On the number 

 of eggs (vnep ra oyborjKovra !), on the construction of the nest, and on 

 its maternal affection, v. Ael. xiv. 7, Phile, 1. c. 



Heraclides ap. Athen. iv. 145 d crrpovOoi ol 'Apa/3tot, at the banquets 

 of the Persian King ; and of the ' Indian ' King (crrp. ol ^fpo-aiot), 

 Ael. xiv. 13 ; also of Heliogabalus, Ael. Lampridius, De Heliog. 28. 



On the capture of the Ostrich see also Diod. Sic. ii. 50, Ael. xiv. 

 7, Opp. De Ven. iii. 487. The interesting account in Strabo, xvi. 4, 11, 

 doubtless refers to the Ostrich. 



How the Ostrich swallows stones, which are a medicine for the eyes, 

 and how its fat and sinews are a useful tonic, Ael. xiv. 7, Phile, I.e. The 

 price of Ostrich-fat, Plin. xxix. 30. 



Pausan. ix. 31, 1 rfjv de y Apo~iv6r]p (a statue in Helicon) crrpovOos (pepet 

 ^aX/cr) tu>v dnTTjVOiV' nrepa pev ye nai airai Kara ravTO. rais aXXai? (pvovaiv, 

 V7TO de fidpovs Kai did peyeBos ovx old re eariv dvexeiv aqbds es top depa 

 rd irrepd. Cf. the ales equos of Cat. lxvi. 54, and Ellis's note thereon ; 

 cf. also Flav. Vop. Firm. c. 6 sedentem ingentibus struthionibus vectum 

 esse ut quasi volitasset. 



Opp. De Ven. iii. 482 et seq. p.eya Oavpa, perci o-TpovBolo KaprjXov . . . 

 Trjs fjroi peye8os pev vnepfiiov, ocrcrou vnepde | va>rois evpvTdroicri qbepeiv 

 veoOqkea Kovpov' | ovSe p.ev dpvlOeaaiv opol'ios dpftabbv evvt], \ BaKTpiov oia 

 de (pv\ov ex ovo ~ lv dnoo~Tpo(pa Xeicrpa, &C. 



Ostriches iv ttj p,fj vopevo t?js Aifivrjs, Theophr. Hist. PI. iv. 3, 5. 



Callim. Rhod. ap. Athen. v. 200 f o-rpovOcov avvoopides ok™, i. e. eight 

 yoke of ostriches (drawing chariots?) in a procession of Ptolemy 

 Philadelphia at Alexandria. Cf. Plautus, Pers. ii. 2, 17 Vola curriculo. 

 Isthuc marinus passer per circum solet. Ostriches harnessed to the 

 coach of the Emperor Firmus, Flav. Vopisc. Firm. c. 6. 



Ostrich plumes mentioned, ibid. iv. 4, 5, ix. 12, 5. 



How the eggs are eaten by the Garamantes (in the Libyan Desert), 

 Lucian, Dipsad. 235, but are of inferior quality, Galen, De Ovis, xxii. 



How the Ostrich hides its head in the sand, Oppian, Halieut. iv. 

 630 roia de Kai Ai[3vr)s iTTepoev /3oroi/ dyKvXodeipov | vr/ma Texvd£ei, k.t.X. 

 Cf. Plin. x. 1. 



The name orpov6oKdprj\os is modern, cf. Galen, De Alim. iii. 20 



to de T<ov o-TpovdoKapr)\a>v \ovopa <a\ Tols 7ra\aiols] dqdes. ovopd^ovai 

 yap avrds p,eyd\as crrpovOovs : cf. ibid. De Prob. Succ. Alim. vi. 

 ITPOY0O'!, 6 and rj. Also orpous, Hesych. Dimin. orpou6io»>, Arist., 



Anax., 3. 164, Ephipp. 3. 326; vrpouB&piov Eubul. 3. 268 (14); 



<rrpou0ias, Com. Anon. 4.647 (172); orrpou0£s, Eust. Opusc. 312, 



