[1846]. Onomast. i. 249.
[1847]. Arist. Hist. Anim. viii. 27. 3. Things manufactured from the hair of this animal were called κιλίκια. Etym. Mag. 513. 41.
[1848]. Arist. Hist. Anim. viii. 27. 3. Speaking of the neighbourhood of Smyrna,—The “sheep,” observed Dr. Chandler, “have broad tails, hanging down like an apron, some weighing eight, ten, or more pounds. These are eaten as a dainty, and the fat, before they are full-grown, accounted as delicious as marrow.” Travels, i. 77. Of the broad-tailed sheep mentioned by the ancients the most remarkable were those of India, where, according to Ctesios, of veracious memory, both they and the goats were larger than asses:—τὰ πρόβατα τῶν Ἰνδῶν καὶ αἱ αἶγες μείζους ὄνων εἰσί, καὶ τίκτουσιν ἀνὰ τεσσάρων καὶ ἓξ ὡς ἐπὶ τὸ πολύ, ἔχουσι δὲ οὐρὰς μεγάλας · διὸ τῶν τοκάδων ἀποτέμνουσιν ἵνα δύνωνται ὀχεύεσθαι. Phot. Biblioth. Cod. 72. p. 46. b. Bekker. Ælian. de Nat. Animal, iv. 32, relates, without any symptoms of incredulity, precisely the same fact; and then adds a circumstance which may keep in countenance the Abyssinian story of Bruce respecting the carving of a rump-steak from a live cow,—for the Indians, observes Ælian, were in the habit of cutting open the tails of the rams, extracting all the fat, and then sowing them up again so dexterously that in a short time no trace of the incision remained visible.
[1849]. Herod. iii. 113. Ælian. Hist. Anim. x. 4.
[1850]. Bound together, probably, by wild succory or cneoron, as in modern times by the withe-wind. Theoph. Hist. Plant. vii. 11. 3. vi. 2. 2.
[1851]. Geop. xviii. 2.
[1852]. Plin. xxi. 7.
[1853]. Dioscor. iii. 32.
[1854]. Geop. xviii. 2.
[1855]. Aristoph. Eccles. 644. Geop. xviii. 2.4.