l82 A GLOSSARY OF GREEK BIRDS 



♦OINIKOnTEPOI {continued). 



great Esteem, for its excellent Taste and most delicious Relish, will 

 appear from the following Quotations ' (Douglass, op. infra cit.) : Plin. 

 x. (48) 68 Phoenicopteri linguam praecipui saporis esse, Apicius docuit ; 

 Martial, xiii. 71 sed lingua gulosis Nostra sapit : quid si garrula lingua 

 foret ? cf. also Sueton. Vitell. xiii. The brain was also a tid-bit, and 

 Heliogabalus (Lamprid. 20, p. 108) exhibuit Palatinis dapes extis et 

 cerebellis Phoenicopterorum refertas. Receipts for the cookery of 

 Flamingos are given (without mention of the tongue) by Apic. (?) De 

 Re Coquin. vi. 7. I am inclined to believe that such costly indulgences 

 of the palate were often determined by obscure superstitious motives 

 (as are many Chinese luxuries) rather than by real or imaginary 

 refinements of taste. Nevertheless the Flamingo's tongue is said to 

 be still appreciated : cf. Von der Miihle, Ornithol. Griechenlands, 

 p. 118 Ein franzosischer Schiffscapitain brachte mir einige von Smyrna, 

 wo sic sehr haufig sind, und von den Jagern den Englandern zum 

 Verkaufe angeboten werden, welche die dicke fleischige Zunge als 

 Leckerbissen verzehren. Cf. (int. al.) the interesting paper by 

 Dr. J. Douglass in Phil. Trans, v. p. 63, 1721. 



<t>OINl'KOYPOI. The Redstart, Luscinia phoenicurus, L., and L. tithys 



(Scop.). Mod. Gk. kokkiv6i«>)\os, yiavvaKos, KaXavT^rjs (Bike'las). 



Arist. H. A. ix. 49 B, 632 b ; Plin. x. (29) 44 ; vide s. v. cpi'Oaicos. Cf. 

 also Geop. xv. I, 22. 



♦OfNIE s. <|>oiVi£. The Phoenix, an astronomical symbol of the 

 Egyptians. Eg. bennu. 

 First in Hes. Fr. 50, 4. 



Herod, ii. J^ eo~Ti be Kai aWos oppis Ipos, T<a ovpopa (po7vi£' eya> pev pip 

 ovk eiSoz/, el pr) oaov ypacprj' km yap br) /cat crndvios e'nicpoiTa cr(pi, bia. ireatv 

 (as 'HXiou7ro\rrcu Xeyovari) nevTciKocriayv. (poirav be Tore cpao-'i, enedp oi 

 dnoOavT) 6 7raTr)p. eo~ri be, el tjj ypacprj napopoios, Tocroabe Kai Toiocrbe' to. 

 pep aiiToxj \pvo~OKopa tcop nrepcop, ra. be epvBpd' is to. paXiara alercc Tvepir)- 

 yrjcnu opoiOTaros, Kai to peyaBos. tovtop be Xeyovai prj^avaa6ai ra.de, epo\ 

 pep ov iTKTTa. Xeyopres. i£ Apafiir)? oppeatpepop es to ipbv tov 'HXiov 

 Kopi^eiv top irarepa ep o-pvpvy ep7r\ao~o~ovTa, Kai Oanreiv ep rov 'HXi'ou tgj 

 Ipco. Kopl^eiv be ovT<a' npa>TOP, ttjs crpvpvrjs coop TrXacrcreip oo~ov re bvvaros 

 eVrt cpepetp' pera. be 7reipao~0ai avro cpopeopra' eireav be aTToneiprjOrj, ovtco 

 8r) Koikrjvavra to wop, top narepa es avro epriOepai, apvpprj be aXXrj epTrXdcr- 

 <reip tovto Kar o ti tov coov e'KKOiXrjvas epe0t]Ke top narepa' eo~KeipePOV be tov 

 narpos yivecrBai t&vto /3apos* epirXdcraPTa be Kopi^eip pip eV AlyvnTov es 

 tov 'HXiov to Ipop. Cf. Ael. vi. 58, Philostr. Vit. Apollon. Tyan. iii. 49, 

 p. 135 (Olear.), Antiph. Com. iii. 96 ep 'HXiov pep (pacri yiypeaOai noXei 

 cpoipiKus, ep 'AOrjpais be yXavKas. Artemid., Suid., Ovid, Metam. xv. 

 392, &c 



