I70 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



TPHPQN {continued). 



Moero, ap. Athen. xi. 491 B of the doves that fed the Infant Jupiter 

 in the Cretan cave, rbv pev apa rpfjpcopes V7ro £ade<p rpe(pov ai>rpa> \ 

 ap{3po<rir)v (popeovcrai an wneavolo podcov. 



Lyc. 87 (vide s. v. ropyos) ; ibid. 423 ot tie v66ov Tprjpccvos rjvvdaOrj 

 Xe'^os-. Opp. Cyn. i. J$ rprjpavas eXov Sovaicrjes : ibid. i. 352 cure yap is 

 (pikorrjTa Boal rprjpcoves 'ioooi | piyvvpeuai (TTopdreao-i (3apv(p06yyois aXo^oicri : 

 ibid. i. 385 euipi Ka\ Tprjpoaves iiviOvovcri neXelais. 



Hence TroXvrprjpeov, an epithet of Laconian Messe, and Boeotian 

 Thisbe, II. ii. 502, 582 ; cf. Stat. Theb. vii. 261 Dionaeis avibus circum- 

 sona Thisbe. There is a curious apparent coincidence between the 

 association with doves of the town Thisbe, and the connexion of 

 Thisbe in the story of Pyramus and Thisbe (Ovid, Met. iv) with 

 Babylon, urbs Semiramidis : on the dove-myth of Semiramis, vide s. v. 

 Trepiorepd. 



TPI KKOI* opviBdpiov o Ka\ (SaaiXevs vno 'HXaW, Hesych. Cf. SpiKKdi, 



SpiKTJai, &c. ; also possibly, Tpixds. 



TPIO'PXHX. MSS. have also Tpiopxi's ; Tpiopxis in Ar. Av. 1206, 

 Simon. Iambi. 8. irupiopxis in Cram. An. Gr. Oxon. ii. 457. See 

 also s. v. PcXXouVtjs. 



A Buzzard (?), Buteo vulgaris, auctt. Mod. Gk. fiapfiaidva. 



Ar. Av. 1181, 1206; also in Ar. Vesp. 1532, where the Buzzards are 

 called the children of Poseidon. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 592 b ecm Se 6 rpiopxr]* to peyedos oaov Iktlvos. 

 koX (palverai ovros bia 7ravros. lb. ix. 36, 620 Kpartaros t&v UpaKav. 

 Ibid. I, 609 Tpiopxrjs Ka\ (ppvvos Kal Befits noXepioi' Karecrdiei yap 6 



Tpiopx*]? avrovs. Ael. xii. 4 ; sacred to Artemis. Mentioned also, Lyc. 

 147 ; Plin. x. (8) 9 Triorchem a numero testium. Buteonem hunc 

 appellant Romani. 



Tradition interprets rptSpxqt as the Buzzard, with which the descrip- 

 tion given agrees save for the important epithet KpaTiaros. Some writers, 

 e.g. Thuanus, De Re Accip., 1612, pp. 22,100, repudiate the identification. 



The mediaeval anatomists, Aldrovandi, Gesner, &c, sought and 

 found (!) the abnormality from which the bird apparently derives its 

 name : but the derivation is probably quite false, and the word 

 corrupted by Volksetymologie. Is it possible that its origin lies hid 

 under the name -ropyos, (q- v.) ? 



According to Nicander, ap. Anton. Lib. c. xiv, Munychus was meta- 

 morphosed into the bird rpiopx^, and his son Alcander into 6'p^iXo?, 

 other two sons becoming Ixvevpw and kvwv, both of which are here 

 spoken of as birds. There is, to my mind, an Egyptian look about 

 the whole story. 



