CYNEGETICA, III. 461-481 



Tell also, I pray thee, O clear-voiced Muse of 

 diverse tones, of those tribes of wild beasts which 

 are of hybrid " nature and mingled of two stocks, even 

 the Pard of spotted back joined and united %\ith the 

 Camel.'' O Father Zeus, how many things hast thou 

 de\'ised, how many forms hast thou created for us, 

 how many hast thou given to men, how many to the 

 finny creatures of the sea ! Even as thou hast deWsed 

 this' very varied form of the Camel, clothing vrith 

 the hide of the shameless Pard a race splendid and 

 lovely and gentle to men. Long is its neck, its body 

 spotted, the ears small, bare the head above, long 

 the legs, the soles of the feet broad ; the limbs are 

 unequal and the legs are not altogether ahke, but 

 the fore-legs are greater wliile the hind-legs are much 

 smaller and look as if they were squatting on their 

 haunches. From the middle of the head two horns 

 rise straight up — not horny horns,'' but feeble pro- 

 jections on the head which alongside the ears rise 

 up between the temples. The tender mouth is 

 sufficiently large, like that of a Stag and within are 

 set on either side thin milk-white teeth. A bright 

 gleam hghtens from the eyes. The tail, again, is 

 short, Uke that of the swift Gazelles, with dark hair 

 at the hinder end. 



tinguentibus, unde appellata camelopardalis, dictatoris 

 Caesaris circensibus ludis primura visa Romae. A. 498 b 33 

 TO drjpiov TO Tapdiov {v.l. 'finrapi8ioi>) ovona^ofuvov, described as 

 having a fine mane, horned and cloven-hooved, has been 

 thought to refer to the Giraife. 



* The so-called "horns" of the Giraffe, which are pos- 

 sessed both by male and female, though less developed in 

 the latter, " differ from those of all other Ruminants ; they 

 are small bony prominences of the frontal bones, which 

 become fused with the Skull, and which are covered with un- 

 modified skin. They are not shed " {Camb. 2i.H. x. p. 30-2). 



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