... favent faucíbus russisCum igitur hoc animal tam sit canorum sua sponte, quid in mentem venit Callistheni dicere deos gallis signum dedisse cantandi, cum id vel natura vel casus efficere potuisset? 27.
Cantú plausuque premúnt alas. [p. 216]
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Democritus quidem optumis verbis causam explicat, cur
ante lucem galli canant; depulso enim de pectore et
in omne corpus diviso et mitificato cibo cantus edere
quiete satiatos; qui quidem “silentio noctis”, ut ait
Ennius,
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