cock-crowing , used only transf. as a specification of time, for the last watch of the night , the break of day , early dawn : noctis gallicinio venit quidam juvenis, Ap.Met. 8, 1, 1; Amm. 22, 14; Macr.S. 1, 3; Censor. de Die Nat. 24.— Plur. , Petr. 62, 3.