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that it is the opinion of Bochart that the disputed line 
should be read thus : 
Namque gravi geminum cornu sic extulit ursum : 
by which alteration we should have two bears instead 
of one : but Mr. Cooke proposes to omit only one letter, 
the s in the word ursum, by which means he turns the bear 
into a wild bull ; and as it is perfectly natural that the wild 
bull, or urus, should have two horns, he translates the line 
thus : 
Struck with amazement, we beheld upborne 
The buffal dreadful with his double horn. 
If Cooke had seen the coin itself, or had consulted that 
book so useful to a medallist, the catalogue of Dr. Mead’s 
coins, he would not have deprived the epigram of its original 
and curious information. 
