Falsafa

Comma for either/or — dharma, courage. Spelling forgiving — corage finds courage.

    The Atlas·Animals

    Cocks

    animal · 8 works · 8 mentions · 10 anchored passages

    cock · cocks · cock that fights at home · rooster · the Persian bird · the bird · these other animals

    spoken of as

    2 expressions

    Cock3 mentions

    Agamemnon (Greek) · Greater Hippias (Greek) · Lysis (Greek)

    Boast on, bearing thee audacious, like a cock his females by!
    agamemnon

    The cock3 mentions

    Birds (Greek) · Wasps (Greek) · Olympian (Greek)

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

    in the texts

    PoliorceticaClassical · Greek

    Domestic fowl whose crowing before dawn could betray a planned night sally

    And make away with the barking of dogs and the crowing of cocks, rendering them silent at that time by searing some part of their bodies;
    poliorcetica

    AgamemnonClassical · Greek

    A rooster/cock, used by the chorus as a mocking simile for Aigisthos's audacious, strutting boastfulness among his hens (implicitly Klutaimnestra and the household).

    Boast on, bearing thee audacious, like a cock his females by!
    agamemnon

    BirdsClassical · Greek

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

    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
    He was so strong, so great, so feared, that even now, on account of his ancient power, everyone jumps out of bed as soon as ever he crows at daybreak.
    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

    WaspsClassical · Greek

    A rooster brought to the home-court to wake Philocleon and comically nod along with his judgments.

    BDELYCLEON So that, if you fall asleep while someone's pleading, it can crow from above and wake you up.
    wasps
    Don't you think so too, cock?
    wasps
    PHILOCLEON That's clever too;
    wasps

    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

    Greater HippiasClassical · Greek

    Animal listed as an example of something that can be beautiful.

    and again all the animals, a beautiful horse or cock or quail and all utensils and land vehicles, and on the sea freight-ships and ships of war;
    greater hippias

    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