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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 1156 — COCK-FIGHTING.

William Johnston translation

Var. Histor. ii. 28. Kühn quotes from Eustathius’s commentary on the Iliad, p. 740, a passage which contains a new proof that the Romans had quail-fighting rather than cock-fighting. The words of Ælian are admitted by Petit among the Attic laws. See his Leges Atticæ, p. 156.

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