The cock · Atlas

spoken of as

1 expression

cocks1 mention

Clouds (Greek)

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

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in the texts

Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyahMedieval · Arabic

The cockerel, named as an emblem of lust and as a case of ignorance of ugliness combined with immediate bodily need.

So the cock and the ass are ignorant of what is ugly in their act, and they have a present need to satisfy the appetite of the belly and the genitals, and so they perform their act before a throng of people.

ch. 8 ¶ · printed page 37

In it is the greed of the dung-beetle and the pig, the ruinousness of the wolf and the leopard, the harmfulness of the scorpion and the snake, the lust of the cock and the ass, and the craving of the camel and the ox in eating;

ch. 8 ¶ · printed page 35

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.

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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.

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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.

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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;

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

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Ansāb al-ʻArab al-qudamāʼ20th Century · Arabic

The domestic fowl cited in the argument from lexical synonymy, bearing a kunyah in the hen, and supplying a modern Lebanese village nickname in the plural.

Name of the village — by-name of its people The people of Jabbāʻ — the firs » Nīḥā — the Nawar » Baʻadhrān — the foxes » al-Mukhtārah — the wolves » ʻAyn Qanyā — the firs » ʻAmmā Ṭūr — the strutting cocks » al-Mazraʻah — the cattle » ʻAynbāl — the donkey-foals » Baqlīn — the sheep » Jadīdat al-Shūf — the dogs (1)

ch. 6 ¶ · printed page 39

and so for the cock, the raven, the mare, the camel, the wolf, the serpent, the locust and the rest of their animals, besides the names of weapons — to say nothing of the synonyms among the names of the sun, the rain, the sea, the well, milk, honey, wine and fire;

ch. 6 ¶ · printed page 36

On the other side, they gave the animals the names of men or their kunyahs:

ch. 6 ¶ · printed page 36