[619]. Herod. i. 155. Cf. Polyæn. vii. 6. 4. Justin, i. 6.
[620]. De Legg. vii. t. viii. p. 3. cf. p. 11.
[621]. Plato, de Legg. vii. t. viii. p. 3. seq.—On the practice of quail-fighting, see Poll. vii. 16. Comm. p. 237. Büd. Com. Ling. Græc. p. 615. Paris. Iungermann ad Poll. vii. 136. p. 427, observes that it was customary to exhibit public quail-fights at Athens. But Lucian who states this (Anach. § 37), confounds the quail with the cock-fighting.—Ælian. V. H. ii. 28. Cf. Ludovic. Nonn. de Re Cib. ii. 22. p. 228. Poliarchos, an Athenian, buried his dogs and cocks magnificently.—viii. 4. In the same spirit, a French lady erected a mausoleum to her cat with this epitaph:
“Ci-gît une chatte jolie,
Sa maîtresse qui n’aima rien
L’aima jusques à la folie.
Pourquoi le dire? On le voit bien.”
The dog who detected the robber of Asclepios’s temple, received while he lived the marks of public gratitude, and was maintained like a hero at the people’s expense.—Ælian. V. H. vii. 14.
[622]. Aristoph. Nub. 185. Plat. Repub. t. vi. p. 146.
[623]. Petit. de Legg. Att. l. ii. tit. iv. p. 162. Æsch. cont. Tim. § 2–4.