ORYX, a sort of wild Goat. Aristotle says, it has a Horn in the middle of its Forehead, and Appian says, it has more than one. Pliny says its Hair is curl’d and turn’d towards its Head. Several have confounded it with the Antilope. Juvenal informs us that it was eaten formerly, but that its Flesh was not much in Esteem with those of nice Palates.
Et Getulus oryx hebeti lautissima cœna.
The Hebrew Word Tho is commonly translated by a wild Bull1. But the Septuagint and other Greek Interpreters, the Syriac and the Vulgate, place it in the Number of the Goats, since they translate it by Oryx.
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Translators’ note. תו the Year of the World ‘Tis thus in our English Translation. 3865, before Christ 135, before the Vulgar Æra 139. ↩