[172] “Lyras” seems preferable to “liras.”
[173] There are several varieties of oxen, in which the horns adhere to the skin, and not to the cranium.
[174] B. viii. cc. 29-31.
[175] The Coluber cerastes of Linnæus. See B. viii. c. 35.
[176] The drinking-horns of our Saxon ancestors are well known to the antiquarian.
[177] The “urna” was half an “amphora,” or nearly three gallons.
[178] See B. xxxv. c. 41.
[179] The rhinoceros. See B. viii. c. 39.
[180] He surely must except the Phrygian oxen with the moveable horns, which he has previously mentioned.
[181] Or “long-haired.” See B. iii. c. 7.