( iiS ) 
relating to this fame Animal is taken out of Straio (c\ 
Shttt ^ ih 'tdem in Arabia) tauri feri^ acqui carnem eelant^ 
no (I r os & magn'ttudine ^ celeritate longue exjuperantes^ 
colore ruffo. Pliny, Htjlor, l^at. Lib. Vlll. C. XXL 
feems likewife to have copied Agatharchides : His 
Words are, Sed atrocijfmos hahet (Aithiopia) Tauros 
S,ylvejlres, wajores agrefiihus, velocitate ante omnes^ 
colore fulvos, oculis cxruleis, pilo in contrarium verfo, , 
riPln ad aures dehifcente, juxta cornua mohilia, tergori 
duritia filicis, cmne refpuens vulnus, Feras omnes ve^ 
nantur : Ipfi non aliter, quam foveis capti, feritute 
fewper intereunt. In the XLV Chapter ot the faid Zth 
Book of ?ltny\ Natural Hillory, he mentions a fort 
of Indian Oxen, Eoves Indict, quihus Came lor urn altitude 
traditur, cornua in latitudinem quaternorum pedum. It is 
not unlikely, but that thefe Indian Oxen are the fame 
with the Ethiopian ones above defcribed ; efpecially 
if we fuppole, that the Tranfcribers of F//«y have, by 
miflake wrote latitudinem inftead of altitudinem, Solinus 
Qd) hath barely copied Pliny, with this difference only, 
that he calls them Indicos Tauros, whereas Pliny 
hirafelf hath defcribed them amongft the AS.thiopian 
Beads, which might very well happen, Ethiopia being 
reckoned, by fome of the Antients, as part of In- 
dia. The defcription of JElianus (e) agrees per- 
fedUy with that of Agatharchides, of whom, it feems, 
he alfo borrowed it ; only he fixes the Size of thefe 
extraordinary Oxen to twice the Bignefs of the com- 
mon Grecian Ox. There is another Paffage in AElia- 
nus (f), which feems to relate, both to this large 
(c) Geogr. Lib. XVL f. 775. Edit. Cnjauhon. 
(d) Polyhlftoris Cap. L. II. p. 58. Edit.Salm. 
(e) Hift. Animal Lib. XVII. c. 4*5 
(f) Hift . Animal Lib. JII.c. 34 
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