Auroch, Julius Caesar

58 BCWestern Europe

“...those animals which are called uri. These are a little below the elephant in size, and of the appearance, color, and shape of a bull. Their strength and speed are extraordinary; they spare neither man nor wild beast which they have espied. These the Germans take with much pains in pits and kill them. The young men harden themselves with this exercise, and practice themselves in this kind of hunting, and those who have slain the greatest number of them, having produced the horns in public, to serve as evidence, receive great praise...The size, shape, and appearance of their horns differ much from the horns of our oxen...”

Caesar, Julius. Caesar's Commentaries on the Gallic and Civil Wars: with the Supplementary Books Attributed to Hirtius: including the Alexandrian, African, and Spanish Wars. London: Bell, 1885. 154