Note 87 — HOW A YOUNG MAN OUGHT TO HEAR POEMS.
Reading edition
The word here used (ὀρτυγοκοπεῖν) denotes a game among the Grecians, which Suidas describes to be the setting of quails in a round compass or ring, and striking at the heads of them; and he that in the ring struck down one had liberty to strike at the rest in order, but he that missed was obliged to set up quails for others; and this they did by turns.