Un-natural History, Or, Myths of Ancient Science;: Being a Collection of Curious Tracts on the Basilisk, Unicorn, Phoenix, Behemoth Or Leviathan, Dragon, Giant Spider, Tarantula, Chameleons, Satyrs, Homines Caudati, &c. Now First Tr. from the Latin, and Ed., with Notes and Illustrations,, Volume 1Edmund Goldsmid Priv. print., 1886 - Animals |
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On the Basilisk | 3 |
1691 | 53 |
III A list of similar words with different meanings | 21 |
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Ælian ANCIENT SCIENCE animal creation Arabia Arachne Aranea authority basilisk bear beast Behemoth believe bird body bones born called Cardanus Chameleon chap chapter cock cockatrice colour creature cubits cure deadly died Diodorus Siculus Dioscoris Dragon Elephant Eusebius Exerc extremely eyes fact feet fish flying folio Franzius GEORGE CASPARD KIRCHMAYER give Greek head Hebrew Hence Hist History huge India John Eusebius Julius Cæsar kind King Lactantius Latin learned length Leviathan lion live means Monoceros MYTHS OF ANCIENT nature one-horned opinion Oppian oryx Ovid passage Philostratus Phoenix Pliny poison quadrupeds quoted reason remarks reptile rhinoceros Rome Satyrs says Scaliger seen serpent Solinus speak Sperlingius Spider statement story tail Tarantula tells term thing Thomas Bartholinus tion tracts tribe trunk truth tusks Ulysses Aldrovandus Un-Natural History unicorn unicorn's horn Vertomannus viii Whale wonderful words worm writers young unicorn