Gallus literally means cock/rooster, I don't really think it's a pun, it sounds like some of the outrageous claims on natural science you find in Pliny... "all goats except the brown ones die if they see their reflection in water"
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I was sceptical, since it seemed unlikely to me that a slang term would carry across languages and time in that way—though stranger things have happened. It’s just that, as you say, excepting the rooster (woman understandable) is an odd claim.
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