. Birds of the Bible . n his head,like the great king. Pisthetairus—And so powerfid was he, and great, andstrong at that time, that still even now, on account ofthat power of his at that time, Avhen he merely crows atdawn, all jump up to their work, braziers, potters, tan-ners, shoemakers, bathmcn, corn factors, lyre-turners, andshield-makers: and they trudge off, having put on theirshoes in the dark. And again, in selecting a ruler for the city of thebirds, Pisthetairus inquired, Who, then, will commandthe Pelargicon of our city. Epops replied, A birdfrom our company, of the Persian race, whi
. Birds of the Bible . n his head,like the great king. Pisthetairus—And so powerfid was he, and great, andstrong at that time, that still even now, on account ofthat power of his at that time, Avhen he merely crows atdawn, all jump up to their work, braziers, potters, tan-ners, shoemakers, bathmcn, corn factors, lyre-turners, andshield-makers: and they trudge off, having put on theirshoes in the dark. And again, in selecting a ruler for the city of thebirds, Pisthetairus inquired, Who, then, will commandthe Pelargicon of our city. Epops replied, A birdfrom our company, of the Persian race, which is saideverywhere to be the most terrible, the chicken of ] replied, O master chicken! How fitted is thegod to dwell upon the rocks! They were common in Italy in the days of Pliny, whowas ten ^cais old at the time of the Crucifixion. Hishistorv contains instructions for the feeding of chickens,mating, brooding, choosing eggs, the diseases of sick hens,and the remedies. He dwelt largely on the bravery. .1 § 1 i b ^ THE COCK AXD IIKX 21)1 and knowledge of the cocks, calling them sentinels andastronomers. He ended a tribute to their fighting powerswith the statement that the verv lions (which of all wildbeasts be most couragtous) stand in fear and awe of them,and will not abide the sight of them. He gave an ac-count of a barnyard fowl that spoke. It belonged to one(ialerius, in tin- time of the consuls I^pidus and Catulus. He recorded that the first man of Rome who deviseda coupe to keep fowl in and cram them to fatnessso that their meat would be of delicate color and fineflavor, was Strabo. He also told of an old lawmade by Caius Fannius, a consul of Rome, providing thatno man should serve at his table more than one hen, andthat a runner only, and not fed up and cranuned he said this law was evaded by feeding cocks andcapons on a paste of meade soaked in milk, that madetheir flesh so fine and tender they could be eaten insteadof hens. He presag
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