Cock-crowing an Omen of Victory
Cicero quotes an instance where a Bœotian soothsayer promised victory to the Thebans from the crowing of a cock. The same circumstance once served the Bœotians as an omen of victory over the Lacedæmonians.
The Queer, the Quaint and the Quizzical
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