 | Pliny (the Elder.) - Science - 1890 - 604 pages
...ears and of the neck. There is also the achlis, s7 which is produced in the island of Scandinavia; 96 it has never been seen in this city, although we have...backwards when grazing; otherwise, by moving onwards, the Jip would get doubled up. In Paeonia, it is said, there is a wild sidered as confirming the opinion,... | |
 | Dwight Williams Huntington - Game and game-birds - 1904 - 404 pages
...will not blame Pliny much. Again : " It is not unlike the elk, but has no joints in the hind legs. Hence it never lies down, but reclines against a tree...for it, as, otherwise, it would escape through its swiftness."f Mr. Grant says the strange stiffness of joint and general ungainliness of the elk, however,... | |
 | Classical philology - 1918 - 736 pages
...one the writer of the account in Caesar tells of the alces, that it has no joints in its hind legs: "Hence it never lies down, but reclines against a...cutting into the tree and thus laying a trap for it." Pliny further adds that its upper lip is so large that it is compelled to graze backward to keep the... | |
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... hind legs. Hence it never lies down, but reclines against a tree while it sleeps; it can only be taken by previously cutting into the tree, and thus laying a trap for it, as, otherwise, it would escape through its swiftness. Its upper lip is so extremely... 