Pygargus

PYGARGUS. This Word literally signifies White Buttocks. This Name is given to a Deut. xiv. 5. Heb. רישון Dishon. Græc. Πύγαργος.kind of Eagle with a white Tail. In Moses, it signifies a four-footed Animal, called in Hebrew, Dishon, as much as to say Ash-coloured. The Tragelaphus has a Part of its Back Ash-colour’d Bellon, Ob. l. 2. c. 51.; and Bellon, under the same Name Tragelaphus, describes an Animal with ash-colour’d Spots or Streaks on its Sides. Pliny Plin. l. 8. c. 53.speaks of a kind of Roe-buck call’d Pygargus. Herodotus, Ælian, and Juvenal, mention it also. See Bochart. Animal. sacr. p. 2. l. 3. c. 20. And probably this is what the Septuagint and Vulgate mean here by Pygargus.

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