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Why he is represented with a cock is a disputed point, which is now made clear: next after _gallus gallinaceus_ [135] himself, there is no crower like the circle-squarer.
A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume II (of II) Augustus De Morgan 1838
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a Frenchman, and Milton said (as Dr Johnson observes,) "Tu es Gallus, et, ut aiunt, nimium gallinaceus."
Sketches of the Fair Sex, in All Parts of the World Anonymous
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