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Origin of
Description &Time Period: |
Pliny the Elder, Natural History -
Roman Encyclopedia C1st CE |
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Variations of the name: |
Roman: Equus Unicornis / Equi
Unicornes |
“The fiercest animal [of
India] is the Unicornis, which in the rest of the body resembles a horse,
but in the head a stag, in the feet an elephant, and in the tail a boar, and
has a deep bellow, and a single horn three feet long projecting from the
middle of the forehead. They say that it is impossible to capture this
animal alive.” –Pliny Natural History 8.31 (a)
Sources:
(a)
http://www.theoi.com/Thaumasioi/Monokerata.html
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