Antiq. of Greece.
1163
De Divinationum Generibus, 1591, 8vo, 232, b.
1164
Geniales Dies, v. 13.
1165
De Divinatione, i. cap. 34.
1166
Plin. x. 21, sect. 34.
1167
In his Annotations on Rosini Antiquit. Rom. iii. cap. 10. See Hyde de Religione Persarum, p. 163.
1168
Lib. xiv. cap. 20.
1169
Aves, 484, 707. Beck, in his edition of this comedy, Lips. 1782, 8vo, p. 50, thinks that the ancients themselves did not know whence this appellation arose. He refers therefore to the scholiasts, and to Suidas, v. Περσικός ὄρνις, p. 102, whose words have been copied by Phavorinus into his dictionary, p. 598; and he supposes, with Suidas, that the similarity of the cock’s comb to the Persian covering for the head gave occasion to the name. But the passage quoted from Athenæus assigns a much more probable reason.
1170
Voy. aux Indes Or. ii. p. 117, where there is also a figure of the wild fowls.
1171
Reineggs Beschreibung des Kaukasus, 1797, 8vo, p. 69.
1172
Lib. x. c. 7.
1173
Cap. 86.
1174
De Legibus, l. vii.
1175
Onomast. ix. 84.
1176
Antich. di Ercolano, tom. viii. Lucerne, p. 63. More engravings of coins with similar impressions may be found in Haym. Thes. Brit. i. pp. 213, 234, in Agostini Gem. P. i. p. 199, and in Gorleus, P. i. 51, and 114, also P. ii. 246. Frölich Notit. Numism. p. 81. A single cock may often have been the emblem of vigilance.
1177
Lib. iv. cap. 36.
1178
Lib. xxii. cap. 21, sect. 30: “perdices et gallinaceos pugnaciores fieri putant, in cibum eorum additis.” This affords a further proof that partridges also were made to fight.
1179
Aves, 760: αἶρε πλῆκτρον εἰ μάχει: tolle calcar si pugnas. See what has been said in regard to this proverb by Suidas, and by Erasmus in his Adagia.
1180
The most celebrated breeds are mentioned by Columella, viii. 2. – Plin. x. 21. – Geopon. xvi. 3, 30.
1181
Varro, iii. 9.
1182
De Bello Gallico, lib. v. 12.
1183
“Præterea quotannis die, quæ dicitur carnivale (ut a puerorum ludis incipiamus, omnes enim pueri fuimus) scholarum singuli pueri suos apportant magistro suo gallos gallinaceos pugnatores, et totum illud antemeridanum datur ludo puerorum vacantium spectare in scholis suorum pugnas gallorum.” I have transcribed these words from the first edition of this old topography, which is entitled A Survey of London, written in the year 1598, by John Stow … with an appendix containing Libellum de situ et nobilitate Londini, written by William Fitzstephen. Lond. 1599, 4to, p. 480. Stow translates the word Carnivale by Shrove Tuesday.
1184
Du Cange, Glossarium. This council, as I conjecture, was held in the town of Copriniacum in diocesi Burdegalensi, which, as some think, was Cognac.
1185
See Maitland’s London, and Stow’s Survey, by Strype, i. p. 302. edit. 1754.
1186
Bell’s Travels, p. 303.
1187