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one-horned ox, and his jointless elk. But is it 

 possible for the Urus to have lived in Germany 

 so long after he was extinct in Britain ? and if 

 he lived in Caesar's time, would he have been 

 called the C/r-ochs ? Even so, was the 

 Hercynian forest his likeliest habitation ? It 

 is far more easy to imagine either that some 

 diplomatic and genial German had invented a 

 tale to deter the great Roman general and please 

 the imperial note-taker or that Csesar was really 

 describing the bison. 



