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TBYTHON the orator of Byzantium , as Leon his fellow-citizen JL relates , was remarkably corpulent . When a tumult had once arisen among the people , in an oration in which he endeavoured to persuade them to peace and reconciliation , he expressed himself thus : — < f You see , my fellow-citizens , of what a size I am , but my wife is still larger than myself . Yet when we are on good terms the commonest bed will hold us . When we disagree , the whole house is not large enough to contain us . "
On The Origin Of Cock-Fighting.
ON THE ORIGIN OF COCK-FIGHTING .
FROM ^ ELIAN ' s VARIOUS HISTORY * . * ¦ ,, BY THE SAME . A FTER their victories over the Persians , the Athenians made a klaw
¦ *• -- , that on one day in every year , there should be a public exhibition of a cock-fight . —I shall explain from what circumstances this custom arose . —When Themistocles led an army of his countrymen against the Barbarians , he saw two cocks fi ghting . The spectacle was not lost upon him . lie made his army halt , and thus addressed them ; " These cocks , said heare not fihting for their countryfor their
-, g , pa ternal gods , nor do they endure this for the monuments of their ancestors , for the sake of glory in the cause of liberty , or for their offspring . The only motive is , that one is determined not to yield to the other . " These words animated the Athenians , and what was then an incentive to their valourwas preserved as a monument which miht lead
, g to the perpetration of similar exploits . Note . —I do not know whether the information will be of any importance to modern cock-fi ghters , but we have the authority o ' fXenophon for asserting , that the Athenians fed their cocks with grains pf pepper to make them more irascible .
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•^ OCRATES being very old , and afflicted with indisposition , was " * J > asked by someone , how he did . "Well , he replied , either way . If I recover , said he , I shall be envied by many . If I die , I shall be praised by many . ''
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From The Same.
FROM THE SAME .
TBYTHON the orator of Byzantium , as Leon his fellow-citizen JL relates , was remarkably corpulent . When a tumult had once arisen among the people , in an oration in which he endeavoured to persuade them to peace and reconciliation , he expressed himself thus : — < f You see , my fellow-citizens , of what a size I am , but my wife is still larger than myself . Yet when we are on good terms the commonest bed will hold us . When we disagree , the whole house is not large enough to contain us . "
On The Origin Of Cock-Fighting.
ON THE ORIGIN OF COCK-FIGHTING .
FROM ^ ELIAN ' s VARIOUS HISTORY * . * ¦ ,, BY THE SAME . A FTER their victories over the Persians , the Athenians made a klaw
¦ *• -- , that on one day in every year , there should be a public exhibition of a cock-fight . —I shall explain from what circumstances this custom arose . —When Themistocles led an army of his countrymen against the Barbarians , he saw two cocks fi ghting . The spectacle was not lost upon him . lie made his army halt , and thus addressed them ; " These cocks , said heare not fihting for their countryfor their
-, g , pa ternal gods , nor do they endure this for the monuments of their ancestors , for the sake of glory in the cause of liberty , or for their offspring . The only motive is , that one is determined not to yield to the other . " These words animated the Athenians , and what was then an incentive to their valourwas preserved as a monument which miht lead
, g to the perpetration of similar exploits . Note . —I do not know whether the information will be of any importance to modern cock-fi ghters , but we have the authority o ' fXenophon for asserting , that the Athenians fed their cocks with grains pf pepper to make them more irascible .
From The Same.
FROM THE SAME .
•^ OCRATES being very old , and afflicted with indisposition , was " * J > asked by someone , how he did . "Well , he replied , either way . If I recover , said he , I shall be envied by many . If I die , I shall be praised by many . ''