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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 /*X?7 &* d\KTpvu>v Kal TTJ irpbs ii\\ov rjTTtjOels dyom'a OVK av aaeie' 

 TO yap rot (ppovrjua avra KarecrraXTat, KOI KaraSverai ye VTTO TTJS aldovs. 

 KpciTrjcras 8e yuvpos eort, *ai {i^ai^ei/ft, KOI Kv8povfj.ev(6 HOIKC. Cf. Proverb, 

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

 and Schol. <pvo-i<bv TOVTO eV ruts (rvfjiftoXals TWV dXfKTpvovcov TOVS fjTTrjdevras 

 eirca-dai rols veviKrjKoo-i : cf. Theocr. xxii. 71. On spurs for fighting- 

 cocks, TrXrjKrpa, KcWpa, cf. Ar. Av. 760, and Schol. The table with raised 

 edges, ri/Xt'a, 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 irlva t Plut. Mor. 65 c. It was a matter of duty and of education 

 to witness the cock-fights, o>$ p.rj dyevvearepot KOI aroX/norepoi (paivoivro 

 rS>v dXeKTpvovatv fJir)e -rrpomrayopcvoiev vnb rpav/zarcov ^ Ka/iareov fj TOV 

 aXXou 8v<rxepovs, Lucian, De Gymn. 37. See also s. vv. opru, O-TU<[)O- 



KOjULTTOS. 



On the marks of courage, Arist. Physiogn. 2, 806 b ; Plin. x. (56) 77 ; 

 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 Kofjuracrov 0ap<ra>i/, aXeKToop wore 6r)\eias ireXas. Cf. Ar. Av. 



835 "Apew? veoTTos. 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 pucpal 

 TO fjieyedos, rocTOWl S' dv cKaaTrjv f]p.epav' elffl Se ^aXfyrat, KOI Kreivovo~i TOVS 

 veoTTovs TroXXaKiy' xpa>fiara 5e TravroSaTra X OV(rLV - ^f. De Gen. iii. 6, 

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

 Steph. Byz. 



Illyrian 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, oi re /ua^i/zoi, KOI ol 

 Koo-orv(poi Ka\ovp.evoi. Cf. Babr. Fab. 5 aXe/cropiWa)^ ty pd\rj Tavnypaioiv, 

 ols (paviv flvai dvfutv &anrep dvdpa>7rois. See also Lucian, Gallus, on the 

 metempsychosis of Pythagoras, dm Sa/itov Tayaypaloy. Cf. KO\oi4>pu|. 



