κολοιός: Difference between revisions

|Definition=ὁ, <span class="sense">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;<span class="bld">A</span> [[jackdaw]], [[Corvus monedula]], <span class="bibl">Il.16.583</span>, <span class="bibl">17.755</span>, <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">V.</span> 129</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Av.</span>50</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Thphr.<span class="title">Char.</span>21.6</span>, <span class="bibl"><span class="title">Sign.</span>39</span>, <span class="bibl">Arat.963</span>, al., <span class="bibl">Ael.<span class="title">NA</span>4.30</span>, <span class="bibl">Dionys.<span class="title">Av.</span>3.18</span>; κραγέται κολοιοί <span class="bibl">Pi.<span class="title">N.</span>3.82</span>:—<span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">HA</span>617b16</span> distinguishes three species, <b class="b3">κορακίας, λύκος, βωμολόχος</b> (qq.v.): he also mentions a web-footed [[κολοιός]], found in Lydia and Phrygia, which is prob. the [[little cormorant]], [[Phalacrocorax pygmaeus]]; cf. <span class="bibl">Ath.9.395e</span> (citing <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Ach.</span>875</span>):—Proverbs: <b class="b3">κολοιὸς ποτὶ κολοιόν</b> 'birds of a feather flock together', <span class="bibl">Arist.<span class="title">EN</span>1155a34</span>, etc.; <b class="b3">κολοιὸς ἀλλοτρίοις πτεροῖς ἀγάλλεται</b> 'borrowed plumes', <span class="bibl">Luc.<span class="title">Apol.</span>4</span>; <b class="b3">κύκνον ἡγοῦ τὸν κ</b>. 'your geese are swans', <span class="bibl">Lib.<span class="title">Ep.</span>42.3</span>; of impudent noisy talkers, πολλοὶ… σφε κατακρώζουσι κολοιοί <span class="bibl">Ar.<span class="title">Eq.</span>1020</span>; of Agathocles, <span class="bibl">Timae.145</span>. (Cf.<b class="b3">κολῳός, κολῳάω</b>.)</span>