An example of something gallus, he said, would be Usain Bolt's donning of a tartan tam o'shanter after winning gold with Jamaica's 4x100m relay team on Saturday night.
Alex Salmond, Scotland's first minister, had earlier declared the city's "gallus, glittering Games" a predictable triumph, modestly telling the Commonwealth Games Federation that the city had taken the 84-year-old event, "respectfully, to a new and higher level".
These domestic birds are descended, respectively, from the red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), mallard duck (Anas platyrhynchos), greylag goose (Anser anser), and rock dove (Columba livia).
The chicken (Gallus domesticus) was domesticated in southern Asia at least 4,000 years ago from a parental stock of one or more species of jungle fowl (principally G. gallus).
The game fowl is probably the nearest to the Indian red jungle fowl (Gallus gallus), from which all domestic chickens are believed to be descended.
Later this month, series 10 will introduce the milder shores of the UK to the gallus Glesga patter once again.
The horse (Equus caballus), for instance, absorbs through its intestine only the carotenes, even though its green food contains mostly xanthophylls; the domestic hen (Gallus domesticus), on the other hand, stores only members of the xanthophyll class, as do many fishes and invertebrates.
Species with abundant domesticated varieties, or breeds, include the dog (Canis lupus familiaris), cat (Felis catus), cattle (Bos species), sheep (Ovis species), goat (Capra species), swine (Sus species), horse (Equus caballus), chicken (Gallus gallus), and duck and goose (family Anatidae).
During this struggle Constantius appointed as caesar his cousin Gallus to be administrator of the East.
Gallus, the first minister had explained, was a Scottish word meaning "cheeky, cheerful, confident, in an attractive way".
His uncle Gallus was bishop of Clermont.
