<t>OINI=— XAPAAPIOI 185 



<t>fl~Y=. (MSS. have <p<ovg, fovg, Aid. and Camus <£ou£, Schn. nwvg. 



7r<i>vy£ in Anton. Lib. c. 5 ; Et. M.) 

 A bird of the Heron kind ; supposed to be a name for the Bittern, 

 but equally applicable to the Common Heron. 



Arist. H. A. ix. 18, 617 ol p,ev ovv epcoSiol tovtop {$iov<ti tov Tponov, fj de 

 KaXovp.evr) cpa>v£ 'idiov %X €L n P 0S TaXXa' /xdXtora yap ecrriv 6(pdaXp.oftopos 

 TQbv opvidav. TroXe/zto? be rrj dpirrj, Kai yap eKelurj 6p.oio(3ioTOS. 



Boios ap. Anton. Lib. 1. C. 17 8e BovXls eyeveTO 7rcoi/y£, ko\ avrfj rpocpfjv 

 edwKev 6 Zevs p,r)8eu eK yijs (pvop.evov, dXXa eadieiv 6(pdaXp.ovs l%6vos f; opvidos 

 rj o<pea>s, on ep.eXXev AlyvnTiov tov •jratftos d<peXeo~6ai tcls o^eis. Etym. M. 

 Hcoijyyes, al aWviai, ai KXrjdelaai ^ovyyes, irapa rrjv fiorjv Ka\ Ivyrjv. 



XAAKIAIKO'r eldos dXeKTpvovos, Hesych. Vide S. V. dXeKTpuwy, p. 24. 



XAAKI'I. Vide supra, s. v. kujuuj>8is. 



XAPAAPIO'I. A bird conjectured to be the Thick-knee or Norfolk 

 Plover, Charadrius oedicnemus, L., Oedicnemus crepitans, auctt. ; 

 so identified by Gesner, followed by Sundevall, Aubert and 

 Wimmer, &c. Mod. Gk. rovpXida (Erh.). Applied by the 

 LXX. to Heb. HfiHt. The derivation from x^P a ^P a ls more 

 than doubtful. 



Ar. Av. 265 es rqv Xoxprjv \ ifxftas €V$C*i X a P a ^P l " v p-i^ov/xevos I ib. II4I 

 ol ^apaS/jiot Ka\ raXXa noTap-L opvea. 



Arist. H. A. viii. 3, 593 b, mentioned with Xdpos, Keirqbos, aXBvia. Ib. 

 ix. 11,615 ras §' olKT)o~eis ol p.ev irepl ras x a P^P as Kal XVPup™ 5 noiovvrai 



K(U 7T€TpaS, 0X0V 6 KoXovp-CVOS X a P a ^P L ° S ' *°" rl §' 6 X a P a $P l0S Kat T l v XP^ aV 



Kai ttjv (pcovqv (pavXos, (paiverai 8e vvKTcop, rjpepas 5' dnodidpao-Kei. 



Proverb, x a pa8piov filov (rjv } of a glutton, Plat. Gorg. 494 B (ubi Schol. 

 opvis tis os dpa t(0 eaOieiv eKKpivei). 



Is killed by do-cpaXros, Ael. vi. 46. trmrei xapadpibs rirdvov o-ndaas, 

 Phile, De An. Pr. 673. 



According to Boios ap. Anton. Lib. c. xv, Agron is metamorphosed 

 into the bird xapaS/nor, the other characters in the story turning into 

 various other nocturnal birds. 



The sight of it is said to cure the jaundice, the bird catching it itself 

 through the eyes ; hence dnocrTpecpeTai tovs iKrepiwi/Tas, Kai Ta 6pp,aTa 

 o-vyKXeicras e^ei. [From which we may conjecture that the experiment 

 has never been fairly tried. W. H. T.] Plut. Symp. ii. 681 c, Ael. 

 xvii. 13. See also Suidas (and Schol. in Ar. Av. 267) Xapabpios. 

 opveov, els ov drrofiXeylravTes, cos Xoyos, ol iKTepioavTes paov dnaXXaTToi/Tai' 

 o6ev Kai aTtoKpinTTOvcnv avrovs ol TTiirpdo~KovTes, "iva p.t] npolKa coCpeXcovrat ol 

 Kap.vovT€s. "Kai p,r)v KaXviTTei, /zooi> x a P a ^P l0P Trepvas;" ovra>s 'l7rna>va^. 

 Kai napoifxia evTevBev, Xapadpiov fxip.ovp.epos, em t&v dnoKpv7rTop,eva)v } 



