p2 Of the Mofaic Pavement 



The o,ragey. turc. It is inuch better defigned for the Wild Afs or Onager : 

 and is the only Inftance, where the Name does not, in fome 

 Degree or other, correfpond, with the Creature, to which it 

 is annexed. 

 ThecAToc The CATOC, by the Addition of a p, will be caypoc, or 

 or cAtroc. ^j^^ Uzard ; as the Figure agrees, with Propriety enough, to 

 The ENHY-the Name. The enhtapic, in like Manner, is no other than 

 APic or ENT. ^j^^ ENTAPic, (the H being redundant,) and denotes the Lti^ra 

 or Otter, or, the Dog of the Rher, as it is otherwife called. 

 They are two in Number, holding each of them, in their 

 Mouths, a Fifh ; agreeably to the Character of that pifcivorous 

 Animal. This was likewife one of thofe Quadrupeds, that were 

 Q.ccoimtQd /acred ', by the Eg/piians. 

 The xoiro. 'j'j^g xoiPonoTAMOT, by cxchanffins; the © for an o, will be 



noTAMer or /Do » 



xoiponoTA- xoiPonoTAMOT, or the River Hog. This is a new Name indeed, 

 though we can hardly be miftaken, in the Interpretation of it; 

 as the Animals here exhibited are exaftly of that Species. In 

 the curious CcUedion of -S^r/o/i's Drawings, which Dr. Mead, 

 that great Promoter of Learning, has, among other invalua- 

 ble Pieces of Antiquity, lately purchafed and received from 

 Rome, we fee the fame Groupe of Animals, with the Appel- 

 lation of xoiPoni0-iA annexed to it. As this word then feems 

 to be a derivative from xoipoc and niOHKoc or niOHS, it might 

 denote thefe Quadrupeds to be Bahoons, Man-Tygers, Orang- 

 outangs \ or, according to the literal Interpretation, Hog^ 

 Monkeys or Bahoons. But, belides the Length and curled 

 Falhion of their Tails, the very Shape and Attitude of the 

 Animals themlelves, fliew them to be much nearer related, 

 ( as it has been already obferved, ) to the Hog, than to the 

 Monkey Kind. 

 TheAFEAA- The AFEAAPOv likcwife, from the Similitude of the Figure, 

 aoypot!^ " may be no more than a Corruption of the Word aiaotpoy, the 

 Cat', which, being one ofthefacred Animals oiEgjypt, could 

 not well be denied a Place, in this Collection. 

 Of thofeAni- Though the Names, of fome other of thefe Animals, are 

 Names are as Well known iu Books of Natural Hiftory, as thofe already 

 th"n" their mentioned, yet the Animals themfelves have not been fo well 



Pefcriptions. 



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defcribed : 



