- Source
- Julius Caesar. Aulus Hirtius. C. Iuli Commentarii Rerum in Gallia Gestarum VII A. Hirti Commentarius VII. Holmes, T. Rice (Thomas Rice), editor. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1914.
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- Humanitext Reader · reader.humanitext.ai · 2026-10-30
Caesar describes a unique animal resembling an ox with the shape of a stag and a single horn on its forehead, noting that the male and female share the same nature and horns.
Est bos cervi figura,1 cuius a media fronte inter aures unum cornu exsistit excelsius magisque directum his, quae nobis nota sunt, cornibus:2 ab eius summo3 sicut palmae ramique4 late diffunduntur. Eadem est feminae marisque natura, eadem forma magnitudoque cornuum.
There is an ox of the shape of a stag, from the middle of whose forehead between its ears there stands out a single horn, taller and straighter than those horns which are known to us. From its top, like palms of hands and branches, they spread out widely. The nature of the female and the male is the same, and the shape and size of their horns are the same.
- 6.26.1cervi figura
Ablative of description (quality) modifying bos, meaning "an ox of the shape of a stag."
- 6.26.1his, quae nobis nota sunt, cornibus
Ablative of comparison dependent on the comparatives excelsius and directum. The relative clause quae nobis nota sunt modifies the antecedent his cornibus, meaning "than those horns which are known to us."
- 6.26.1ab eius summo
eius is the genitive pronoun referring back to cornu (horn). summo is the ablative of the neuter singular adjective summus used substantively (or agreeing with an implied cornu in the ablative), meaning "from the top of it."
- 6.26.1palmae ramique
Nominative plurals. palma refers to the palm of the hand (the flat part of the antler) and ramus to branches, metaphorically describing how the top of the horn spreads out in those shapes.