"Echoon" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... tusk of a narwhal. This confusion arose very early, as may be seen from its occurrence in Aelian, who says that the horn of the unicorn or Kartazonon (the Arab Karkaddan or Rhinoceros) was not straight but twisted ([Greek: eligmous echon tinas], Hist. An. xvi. 20). The mistake may also be traced in the illustrations to Cosmas Indicopleustes from his own drawings, and it long endured, as may be seen in Jerome Cardan's description of a unicorn's horn which he saw suspended in the church ...
— The Travels of Marco Polo, Volume 2 • Marco Polo and Rustichello of Pisa
... phygon dolometis homarteseie Prometheus, hepatos heboontos apheidea daitymonea ouranies thrasyn ornin echon pompea keleuthou]. ...
— Prometheus Bound and Seven Against Thebes • Aeschylus |
