[1163] De Divinationum Generibus, 1591, 8vo, 232, b.
[1164] Geniales Dies, v. 13.
[1165] De Divinatione, i. cap. 34.
[1166] Plin. x. 21, sect. 34.
[1167] In his Annotations on Rosini Antiquit. Rom. iii. cap. 10. See Hyde de Religione Persarum, p. 163.
[1168] Lib. xiv. cap. 20.
[1169] Aves, 484, 707. Beck, in his edition of this comedy, Lips. 1782, 8vo, p. 50, thinks that the ancients themselves did not know whence this appellation arose. He refers therefore to the scholiasts, and to Suidas, v. Περσικός ὄρνις, p. 102, whose words have been copied by Phavorinus into his dictionary, p. 598; and he supposes, with Suidas, that the similarity of the cock’s comb to the Persian covering for the head gave occasion to the name. But the passage quoted from Athenæus assigns a much more probable reason.
[1170] Voy. aux Indes Or. ii. p. 117, where there is also a figure of the wild fowls.
[1171] Reineggs Beschreibung des Kaukasus, 1797, 8vo, p. 69.
[1172] Lib. x. c. 7.