Textrinum antiquorum : an account of the art of weaving among the ancients ... (1843)
Yates, James, 1789-1871 · London : Taylor and Walton · leaf 440
d by wearing a stiff cyrbasia, which stood erect, whereas his subjects wore their tiaras folded and bent forwards*. Hence in the Aves of Aristophanes the cock is ludicrously compared to the Great King, his erect comb being called his “ cyrbasia.” The Athenians no doubt con- sidered this form of the… … moon considered as of the male sex agreeably to the ideas of many northern and Asiatic nations (Patin, p. 173). This male moon or month was, as it seems, always represented with the cyrbasiat. In another coin pub- lished by Patin (/. 6.) a cock stands at the feet of this divinity, proving that this…
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