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‘Ciris’

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
D'Arcy Wentworth Thompson
Affiliation:
St. Andrews
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Extract

My colleague, Professor W. M. Lindsay, invites, or challenges, me to reply to his note on ‘Ciris’ (Class. Quart. XIX., pp. 103, 104); I can but take him at his word.

Professor Lindsay seeks to identify the two birds Haliaetus and Ciris, and finds the task an easy one; he identifies Ciris with a Tern confidently and categorically. We learn (he says) ‘from Gallus' epyllium … that it was a sea-bird with red legs, so rapid in flight that it always evaded the swoop of the sea-eagle. What can this be but a tern?’

Type
Research Article
Information
The Classical Quarterly , Volume 19 , Issue 3-4 , July 1925 , pp. 155 - 158
Copyright
Copyright © The Classical Association 1925

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