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of the burnt Foot ; That they flept Handing upright on 
one Foot, with the other drawn up to their Bread among 
their Feathers: And ladly, that very little Sleep ferved 
their Turn. 
Ufus. 
This beautiful and fcarce Bird was much edeemed by 
"the Romans, and frequently made ufe of in their codly 
Sacrifices and fumptuous Entertainments. Thus Sueto- 
nius (q) defcribing the exquifite Sacrifices which were 
appointed by the mad Emperor Caligula to be offered 
to himfelf as a Divinity, fays of them, Ho(li<e erant 
Phoenicopteri, Pavones , Tetraones , Numidic a, Meliagrides, 
Phafiana, qua generatim per fingttlos dies immolarentur. 
And the fame Hidorian relates further ( r ), that this 
Emperor pridie qtiam periret facrificans refperfus efi Phae - 
nicopteri {anguine. 
That the Tongue of this Volatile was much com- 
mended, and in great Edeem, for its excellent Tade and 
mod delicious Relifli, will appear from the following 
Quotations. And fird we read in Pliny ( s) t that Apicius 
faid the Tongue of this Bird was a delicious and favory 
Bit, Phcenicopteri linguam pracipui effe faporis Jpicius do - 
cult, nepotum omnium alt t (firms gorges. 
The Poet Martial fays the fame thing in the afore- 
cited Epigram: 
Dat mthi penna rubens nomen : fed lingua gulofis 
v No fir a fapit ; 
And Juvenal (j ) in that Satyr where he expofes the ex- 
travagant Luxury and Gluttony of the Romans, men- 
(q) Suetonii Caligula , 22. (>■) ScaJig. §. 57. (j) Plinii Nat. 
Hijl. Lib. X.’ cap. 48. ( t ) Juvenal. Sat. XI. 
tions 
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