Note 195 — ARRIAN ON COURSING.
William Dansey translation
The wild ass, or Koulan, is an animal of the greatest speed and beauty. He is elegantly and correctly described by Oppian:
Cyneget. iii. 183.
—— εὔσφορον, ἠνεμόεντα, κραιπνὸν, ἀελλοπόδην, κρατερώνυχον, αἰπὺν ὄναγρον, ὅστε πέλει φαιδρὸς, δέμας ἄρκιος, εὐρὺς ἰδέσθαι, ἀργύφεος χροιὴν, δολιχούατος, ὀξύτατος θεῖν.
Epigr. L. xiii. 100.
See also the Book of Job, c. xxxix. vs. 5. et seqq. plin. hist. nat. l. viii. c. 44. Varro de R. R. L. ii. c. 6. and the veterinarian apsyrtus, geopon. l. xvi. c. 21. Martial records his beauty, “Pulcher adest onager.” Spelman is mistaken in identifying the onager and zebra, and referring to the stuffed specimen of our college for his example of the former under the type of the latter.