PLINY: NATURAL HISTORY 



solidus in alvo spectatus sit infans. aluntur primo 

 bubuli lactis suco, unde nomen traxere. 



38 XV. Ceterorum animalium quae modo convecta 

 undique Italiam ^ contigere ^ saepius formas nihil 

 attinet scrupulose i-eferre. paucissima Scythia gignit 

 inopia fruticum ; pauca contermina illi Germania, 

 insignia tamen boum ferorum genera, iubatos 

 bisontes excellentique et vi et velocitate uros, 

 quibus inperitum volgus bubalorum nomen inponit, 

 cum id gignat Africa vituli potius cervique quadam 



39 similitudine. XVI. Septentrio fert et equorum gre- 

 ges ferorum, sicut asinorum Asia et Africa, praeterea 

 alcen, iuvenco similem ni proceritas aurium et cervicis 

 distingueret ; ^ item natam in Scadinavia insula nec 

 um(juam visam in hac urbe,^ multist amen narratam 

 achhn, haud dissimilem iUi, sed nuUo sufFraginum 

 flexu ideoque non cubantem sed adchnem arbori 

 in somno, eaque incisa ad insidias capi, ahas velo- 

 citatis memoratae. labrum ei superius praegi*ande ; 

 ob id retrograditur in pascendo, ne in priora tendens 



40 invohatur. tradunt in Paeonia feram quae bonasus 

 vocetur equina iuba, cetei-a tauro similem, cornibus 



^ Hardouin : Italiae. 



* contigit videre ? Dalecamp. 



* Mayhoff : distiuguat, -ant. 



* v.l. hoc orbe. 



■ Bos 'primigenius, now extinct. 



* Perhaps the moose or the reindeer, though the statement 

 about its leg is of course untrue. Achlis is presumably a 

 vernacular name. 



' Probably Zealand. 



■* So far this startling account of the achlis comes from 

 Caesar, B.G. vi. 27, where it is given of the alces of the 



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