AAEKTPYJiN 23 



AAEKTPYiJN ..contimted) . 



of Panagia Gorgopiko at Athens, as taking place in the month Poseideon, 

 about the end of December (Boetticher, Philologus, xxii. p. 397, 1865). 

 As an attribute of January, on a Calendar of the time of Constantius ; 

 Graevii Thes. Ant. Rom. viii. 96, Creuzer, Symb. iii. 616. Ael. N. A. 



iv. 29 MQX.V ^^ aXfKrpvwj/ Kai Trj ivpbs (iWov T]TTr]de).s dyavia ovk av acrfif' 

 TO yap TOi (ppovrjiia nvro) KarecTTaXTai, Kai Kara^vfTai ye vtto rrjs albois. 

 Kparrjaas 8e yuvpoi ecrrt, Kai i'\//'av;^€i/ft, kol Kvhpovpfvoi eoiKf. Cf. Proverb, 

 Galli victi silent, canunt victores, Cic. De Divin. ii. 26 ; cf. Ar. Av. 70 

 •and Schol. (pvaiKov tovto iv th'is avp^oXais tmv aKeKTpvuv(i)v tovs fjTTrjdevras 

 eneardai ro'is vfviKrjKoa-i : cf. Theocr. xxii. yi. On spurs for fighting- 

 cocks, nXrjKTpa, Kivrpa, cf. Ar. Av. 760, and Schol. The table with raised 

 edges, rrjXla, on which Cocks or Quails were pitted against one another 

 (still used in the East), Aeschin. viii. 221, Alciphr. iii. 53, Poll. ix. 108; 

 also niva^, Plut. Mor. 65 c. It was a matter of duty and of education 

 to witness the cock-fights, ms pfj dyewea-Tepoi kuI d-oKpLOTepoi. (fjnivoivTO 

 Ta)v d\eKTpv6va>v fxrjde Trponnayopevoifv vno Tpavfidratu r) KaparSiv fj rov 

 aXXov Bvax^povs, Lucian, De Gymn. ^y. See also s. vv. opTu|, cttu<J)o- 



KOfATTOS. 



On the marks of courage, Arist, Physiogn. 2, 806 b ; Plin. x. (56) yy ; 

 Geopon. xiv. 16. 



The fighting-breed of Tanagra, Pausan. ix. 22. 4 (vide infra). 



How the Cock fights his own father, Ar. Nub. 1427, &c., cf. Av. 758, 

 1364. 



How a hen that has defeated the Cock in combat, crows and assumes 

 the plumage of the male, Arist. H. A. ix. 49, 631 b, cf. Ael. v. 5 ; Terent. 

 Phorm. iv. 4. 30 gallina cecinit. On wide-spread superstitions con- 

 nected with the Crowing Hen, vide Hopf, Thierorakel, pp. 164, 165. 



On the pugnacity of the Cock, cf. also Pind. Ol. xii. 20. Aesch. 

 Agam. 1671 Kopnaaov 6apaS)v, dXeKrap coarre drjXelns neXai. Cf. Ar. Av. 

 835 "Apeoos veomk. See also Lucian, Gallus, &c. 



Placed as a symbol of battle on the head of Athene's statue in the 

 Acropolis at Elis, Pausan. vi. 26. 23. 



Varieties and Breeds.- — Adrian Fowls, Arist. H. A. vi. I, 558 b piKpai 

 TO p.€yfdoiy TiKTOvai S' av indinrfv i]pepav' eicl Se ;^aXf7rat, Kni kt(Ivov(tl tovs 

 veoTTOVs TToXXaKis' ;^pa)/jara 8e navToSaTrd exovaii'. Cf. De Gen. iii. 6, 

 Chrysipp. ap. Athen. vii. 285 E, Plin. x. 75 (53), Hecat. fr. 58, ap. 

 Steph. Byz. 



lUyrian Fowls, that lay twice or thrice a day, Arist. De Mirab. 128, 

 842 b; cf. H. A. vi. I, 558 b. 



At Tanagra, Paus. ix. 22. 4, were, two breeds, ot re iidxip-oi, Ka\ ol 

 Koaavcfioi KaXovfjLevoi. Cf. Babr. Fab. 5 dXfKTnpla-KMv ijv pdxr) Tavnypaicou, 

 oh (f)aaiv elvnt dvfxuv ujairep dvdpQ>nois. See also Lucian, Gallus, on the 

 metempsychosis of Pythagoras, dtri "Eafiiov Tavaypaios. Cf. Ko\oi<|>pu$. 



