896 Hornless Ruminants. Oe 
„with the remarkable distinctiveness given to the depiction off : 
horns where these had to be represented. (Figs. 16, 17, © 
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Fic. 16. Fi, 17. 
The horns are so distinct and perfectly done that any instant 
where they are absent is all the more valuable. All the hee 
have picked out are decidedly hornless, and were thus assu 
meant by the original artist. The last coin, marked with # 
asterisk (*), is repres 
tavo edition of the a 
logue, to be had at g 
B.C. 400 —The | 
profane history, 1*7 z] | 
ing the cattle of the Arimaspi, a one-eyed race of men, W " 
Issedones themselves affirmed dwelt beyond them, o y 
north of Scythia, says (“ Melpomene,” v. 28, 29) that e 
account of the intolerable winter of eight months of this 
that the race of cattle appear to be imperfect, ane © 
y horns; and the following verse from Homer, in his © 
(B. iv. 1, 85), confirms my opinion as to the cause: 
3 ‘And Libya, where the lambs soon put forth their hors)” 
Tightly observing that in warm climates horns shoot ge 
but in very severe cold the cattle either do not product 
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Cowper’s translation : 
. “the coasts 
Of Libya, where the lambs their foreheads ire 
At once their horns—defended soon as yeaned- 
Fic. 18. 
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