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TAiil {continued). 



irepidycov els kvkXov avra diarfTaypevois oppaatv' to. S17 Kara tx]S ovpds 

 XafiTTovaiv wa-irep do-repes avra, k.t.X. Chrysipp. ap. Plut. ii. 1044 C 6 Tans 

 iveica rrjs &pas yeyove, 81a to KaXXos avTrjs. Cf. Opp. Cyneg. iii. 344 ocraov 

 iv T]€pLoio~i raoos Kakos olatvoicri. Plin. x. (20) 22 Gemmantes laudatus 

 expandit colores adverso maxime sole, quia sic fulgentius radiant : . . . 

 omnesque in acervum contrahit pennarum, quos spectari gaudet oculos. 

 Colum. R. R. ix. 1 1 Semetipsum, veluti mirantem, caudae gemmantibus 

 pennis protegit, idque cum facit, rotare dicitur. Ovid, Art. Amor. i. 627 

 Laudatas ostendit aves Iunonia pennas ; Si tacitus spectes, ilia recondit 

 opes : cf. id. De Medic. Fac. 33, Met. xiii. 802. Cf. also Hor. Sat. ii. 2, 

 24, Lucret. ii. 806, Stat. Silv. ii. 3, 26, Mart. xiii. 70, Propert. ii. 24, 11 ; 

 Phaedr. iii. 57, &c., &c. It is, however, much ashamed of its ugly feet : 

 Phile, 208 avoTeXXcrat 8e koL KaTacnra rbv rvcpov \ opcov dvcreidels eK pvridcov 

 tovs 7i68as. 



Its harsh cry, Anaxilaus ap. Ath. xiv. 655 a olpwfav raws: Eup. 2. 

 437 (4) pr)7T0Te Bp€y\ra> ivapa JJepcrecfiovr} roioVSe raSj/, 6s tovs evdovras iyeipei. 



Various legends. 



Uses as a charm Xivov pi(av, which it carries under its wing, Ael. xi. 18. 



How the peacock swallows its excrement, lest we should use it in 

 medicine, Plin. xxix. 38. 



A peacock enamoured of a maid, Clearch. ap. Athen. xiii. 606 c. 



Fable. — The Crane and the Peacock, Babr. lxv, cxlii (ed. Rutherford) 

 " o~v §' las dXeKToap raicrde rat? KaTaxpvaois \ ^a/xal nTepvaar]" (pr)o~lv, " ovd' 

 avoa <£aiV?/." Cf. Suid., S. V. yipavos. 



TEAE'AI. A bird-name (?). Ar. Av. 168 and Schol. 



TE'TAPOI. A Pheasant. A Median word, whence Pers. tedyrw, 



adopted into Old Scl. tetravi, tetria, &c. ; also Lith. teterva, 



teterwas, tetter a> whence Finn, tetri; adopted further into Sw. 



tjader, Dan. tuir, and possibly incorporated (Hehn) into Eng. 



turkey. Cf. Hind, tittiri, a Partridge or Francolin; Lat. tetrao, 



Gk. T6Tpa£, TCTpdwK Cf. Pott, Etym. Forsch. i. p. lxxx. 



Ptolem. Euerg. ap. Athen. xiv. 654 C rd re tcov fyacriavaiv ovs rerdpovs 



(at. Terpdcovas) 6vopd£ovaiv. [ovs] ov p.6vov e'/c Mrjdeias perene p-rrero, dXXd. 



kcu vopdftas opvidas vTrofiaXcov Arot'iprc ttXtjOos, eoore nai an tui Out. to 8e 



Qpoapa noXvTfXes dnocpaivovo-iv : cf. ibid. ix. 387 e. 



Also Ten-upas, Epaenetus, Artemid. and Pamph. ap. Athen. ix. 387 d 

 6 (pao-Lcivbs opvis TdTvpas KaXelrai : cf. Hesych., who gives also Ti-rupag, 

 TiTupos, cf. Theophr. Char. vi. 2. Hesych. has further rerapyq- cpaa-ya- 

 vcov eiSos, where word and gloss are alike corrupt ; cj. rerapoi' <pao-iai>a>u 

 eldos. TauT<xo-os and Teyyupos, Hesych., are probably also akin. See 

 also s. vv. Terpa|, Terpdwy. 



