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of feveral emperors. The poet fays : The Rhino- 
ceros tofs’d up a heavy bear with his double horn : 
Namque gravern gernino cornu fic extulit urfum. 
and as Bochart knew nothing of a double horn, he 
changed this line both in reading and ienfe, thus : 
Namque gravi geminum cornu fic extulit eurum . 
as if two wild bulls were toffed up into the air, by 
the ftrong horn of the Rhinoceros. 
Mr. Maittaire adopted the notion of a fingle horn, 
but was of opinion that the geminum eurum of 
Bochart ought to have been plural, ge?ninos euros , as 
being more elegant ; and he was followed by Dodlors 
Mead and Douglas, with this difference, that thefe 
changed the euros for urjos , as imagining they were 
rather bears than bulls, that were thrown up by this 
noble animal. 
Our then worthy prefident Martin Folkes Efquire, 
had feen my account of this fubjedt, at the end of 
which, I endeavoured, however prefumptuoufly, to 
defend Martial’s reading againft Bochart and the 
other eminent perfons mentioned ; and defired I 
would let it be read and printed, which I very readily 
agreed to, as his requell did me much honour. 
Before my paper was printed, Mr. Maittaire and 
Dodtor Douglas died 5 and the learned Dodtor Mead 
was the furviving critic, upon this line, of the three. 
Upon this occafion, therefore, I have a double plea- 
fure ; firft, in amufing the prefent gentlemen with 
a moft curious fpecimen in natural hiltory; and, 
fccondly, in remembring, in this place, the nice 
candor and generality of Dodtor Mead upon that 
fubjedt. For, about four months after the paper 
was printed, he received a prefent of feveral cu- 
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