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AAEKTPYflN {continued). 



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 fiiiXV W dXeKTpvoov Ka\ rfj npbs aXXov f)TTr)$e\s ayonvia ovk av aaeie' 

 to yap toi (ppoPTjpa avrcp KareVraXrat, kcii Karabverai ye viro rrjs albovs. 

 Kparrjo-as be yavpos eori, Kai vyjsavxevel, ko\ Kvbpovpeuco eoiKe. Cf. Proverb, 

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

 and Schol. (pvo-iKov tovto iv r<us ovpftoXals tozv dXenrpvovcov tovs fjTTrjdevras 

 e-necrOai rois vevacrjKoai : cf. Theocr. xxii. 71. On spurs for fighting- 

 cocks, rrXrjKTpa, Kevrpa, cf. Ar. Av. 760, and Schol. The table with raised 

 edges, TrjXia, 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 ttwi£, Plut. Mor. 65 c. It was a matter of duty and of education 

 to witness the cock-fights, cos prj dyevveorepoi Koi dToX/xorepoi (palvoivro 

 t5>v a\€KTpv6va)v p.rj8e Trpomrayopevoiev inrb TpavpArtov tj Kaparcov fj tov 

 aWov dvax^povs, Lucian, De Gymn. yj. See also s. vv. opTu|, oru4>o- 



KOjATTOS. 



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. 01. xii. 20. Aesch. 

 Agam. 1671 Kopnaarov dapaav, aXe/crap cocrre OrjXelas TrcXas. Cf. Ar. Av. 



835 "Apeoo? veorros. 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 pi<pa\ 

 to peyeOos, tIktovctl 6" dv' eKaaTrjv fjpepav' etVl be ^aXe7rat, ko\ Krelvovo-t tovs 

 veoTTOvs iroXXaKis' xP^ ) f iaTa °^e TravTobaira exovaiv. Cf. 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. 1, 558 b. 



At Tanagra, Paus. ix. 22. 4, were two breeds, ol re pdxipot, ko\ oi 

 k6o~o-v<$>oi KaXovpevoi. Cf. Babr. Fab. 5 dXeKTaplo-iea>v rjv pdxr) Tavnypaicov, 

 ols <paaiv elvai dvpbv wanep dvOpairois. See also Lucian, Gallus, on the 

 metempsychosis of Pythagoras, dm 2ap,iov Tavaypaios. Cf. Ko\oi4>pu£. 



