From Aeliani de natura animalium libri XVII, II.xx. In the translation after Gesner's, from the Jacobs edition of 1832 (p. 27):
XX. Tauris omnibus rigida et minime flexibilia exsistunt cornua; eamque ob rem cornibus perinde armati furibunde appetunt, atque homines armis hostem feriunt. Erythraei autem boves mobilia similiter cornua ut aures habent.
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