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title: "Gallic War — Book VI"
author: "Julius Caesar"
translator: "W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn"
languages: [la, en]
shelf: "Classical Latin"
section: 26 of 44
url: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/26/
cite: "Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn, Gallic War — Book VI, section 26. Scriptura (scriptura.si), https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/26/"
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# Gallic War — Book VI

*Julius Caesar, tr. W. A. McDevitte and W. S. Bohn*

## 26. Book VI — Chapter 26

Source: https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/26/ · cite a paragraph as https://scriptura.si/works/caesar-gallic-war-book-vi/26/#p-N

[¶0] There is an ox of the shape of a stag, between whose ears a horn rises from the middle of the forehead, higher and straighter than those horns which are known to us. From the top of this, branches, like palms, stretch out a considerable distance. The shape of the female and of the male is the, same; the appearance and the size of the horns is the same.

> Latin: Est bos cervi figura, cuius a media fronte inter aures unum cornu exsistit excelsius magisque directum his, quae nobis nota sunt, cornibus: ab eius summo sicut palmae ramique late diffunduntur. Eadem est feminae marisque natura, eadem forma magnitudoque cornuum.