cocks · Atlas · Falsafa

spoken of as

2 expressions

The cock2 mentions

Birds (Greek) · Olympian (Greek)

It's in memory of his reign that he is called the Persian bird.

Cock“fighting rooster”1 mention

Lysis (Greek)

of these things I reck little, but for the possession of friends I have quite a passionate longing, and would rather obtain a good friend than the best quail or cock in the world;

lysis ¶

in the texts

BirdsClassical · Greek

The domestic rooster, presented by Pisthetaerus as the ancient king of the Persians, whose morning crow still rouses tradesmen at daybreak.

It's in memory of his reign that he is called the Persian bird.

birds ¶

First of all, I will point you to the cock, who governed the Persians before all other monarchs, before Darius and Megabazus.

birds ¶

I had drunk pretty freely and had just fallen asleep, when a cock, I suppose in a greater hurry than the rest, began to crow.

birds ¶

CloudsClassical · Greek

Domestic fowl cited by Phidippides as a natural precedent for sons attacking their fathers, and mocked by Strepsiades as an absurd model to imitate selectively.

Observe the cocks and these other animals, how they punish their fathers;

clouds ¶

Why then, since you imitate the cocks in all things, do you not both eat dung and sleep on a perch?

clouds ¶

OlympianClassical · Greek

A fighting-cock used in simile for how Ergoteles's fame would have remained obscure had he not been exiled from Crete.

Son of Philanor, truly, like a cock that fights at home, even the fame of your swift feet would have shed its leaves ingloriously beside your native hearth, if hostile civil strife had not deprived you of your Cnossian fatherland.

chapter 12 ¶

LysisClassical · Greek

A fighting rooster, mentioned by Socrates as a prized possession he would give up for a good friend.

of these things I reck little, but for the possession of friends I have quite a passionate longing, and would rather obtain a good friend than the best quail or cock in the world;

lysis ¶