Note 285 — FIRST SECTION. (continued 2)

On account of the resemblance of its harsh, screeching note? Reiske remarks on this passage: Est autem κερχνίς avis quaedam a stertendo sic dicta, vel stridore, quem edit similem iis qui stertunt. (But the κερχνίς,—hawk, is a bird so called from the snoring, or harsh note it utters, like men who snore). Comp. Schneider, Lexicon, under words κέρχνος and κέρχω (hoarseness, to make hoarse).