Batman vppon Bartholome his booke De proprietatibus rerum, newly corrected, enlarged and amended: with such additions as are requisite, vnto euery seuerall booke: taken foorth of the most approued authors, the like heretofore not translated in English. Profitable for all estates, as well for the benefite of the mind as the bodie. 1582.

De Pigargo. cap. 85.

* 1.1PIgargus is a cleane beast to meate, as it is said Deutro. 14. and is an hor∣ned beast, as a Goat bucke, & is lesse then an Hart, & greater then a goat bucke: and is like to the beast y^t is called Hircocer∣uus, but is much lesse then he. Looke w^tin de Tragelapho.* 1.2 And he cheweth his cud, as the Goat buck, & is cloue footed as an Hart, and is a wilde beast, and of great switnesse, and dwelleth in woods and in desart. And Hugution saith, that Pigar∣gus is a little lowe bird, and that name commeth of Pige, that is lownes. But in Deut. it is taken for a foure footed beast, y^t is like to the beast that is called Hirco∣cemus, as the Glose meaneth there. And this name Pigargus hath no aspiratiō in the first silable, & so it shall not be writ∣ten with H••but some men write Phigar∣gus, and doe amisse, as it is knowen by bookes that be dilligently corrected.

Notes

• * 1.1

  Pygargus The Roe bucke.
• * 1.2

  Hircum siluestrē.