RHINOCEROS 
virgin' Abbada \ cups are made of them. Found 
fometimes with % double horns : Martial alludes to 
a variety of this kind by hi sUrfus cornu gemino. 
Is the unicorn of Holy writ, and of the antients; 
the Oryx and Indian afs of Ariftotle **, who fays 
it has but one horn; his informers might well 
compare the clumfy fhape of the Rhinoceros to that 
of an afs, fo that the philofopher might eafily be 
induced to pronounce it a whole footed animal. 
This was alfo the bos unicornis and fera monoceros of 
Pliny + ; both were of India, the fame country with 
this animal; and in his account of the monoceros , 
he exadlly deicribes the great black horn and the 
hog-like tail. The unicorn of holy writ has all 
the properties of the Rhinoceros , rage, untameable- 
nefs, great iwiftnefs, and great ftrength. 
It was known to the Romans in very early times : 
its figure is among the animals of the Prcenefiine * 
pavement. Auguftus introduced one into the fhews J, 
on his triumph over Cleopatra \ and there is extant 
a coin of Domitian , with a double-horned Rhinoceros 
on it §. 
The combats between the Elephant and Rhinor- 
ceros, a fable, derived from Pliny . 
* Hamilton, in his yoyage to the Eajr Indies, I. 8. fays, that he 
faw brought from Natal, m.Africa, three, horns growing from one 
root; the longeft 18, the next 12, and the third 8 inches long. 
** HiJt. Anrlib. il . r. 1. 
t Lib. viii. c. 21. 
X Dion. CaJJius, lib. $ 1 „ 
4 fb. xi, 913. 
