The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 1 · Richard Francis Burton translation

Note 23
Tale of the Bull[FN#23] and the Ass.

In Egypt, etc., the bull takes the place of the Western ox. The Arab. word is "Taur" (Thaur, Saur); in old Persian "Tora" and Lat. "Taurus," a venerable remnant of the days before the "Semitic" and "Aryan" families of speech had split into two distinct growths. "Taur" ends in the Saxon "Steor" and the English "Steer "

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Tale of the Bull[FN#23] and the Ass.

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