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Notes and Queries, Number 26, April 27, 1850 by Various
page 43 of 67 (64%)
quia verbum _Karan_ denominativum nominis _Keren, cornu_;
opinatus est denotare, _cornua habere_; hine nata opinio, Mosis
faciem fuisse cornutam. Sed nomen [Hebrew: keren] ob
similitudinem et ad _radios_ transferri, docet Haliæ, m. 4. ubi
de fulminibus dicitur.... Hic denotat _emisit radias_, i.e.
splenduit." LXX. [Greek: dedoxastai]. Our version, _shone_.

R. ad Psal. xxii. seems to say, that in Arabic there is the like
metaphor, of the sun's rays to a deer's horns. R. adds, that the Jews
also attributed horns to Moses in another sense, figuratively for power,
as elsewhere.

_Tauriformis._--The old scholiasts on Horace say that rivers are always
represented with horns, "propter impetum et mugitum æquarum."

"Corniger Hesperidum fluvius."

An old modern commentator observes, that in Virgil "Rhenus bicornis,"
rather applies to its two æstuaries.

When Milton says (xi. 831.) "push'd by the horned flood," he seems
rather to mean, as Newton explains him, that "rivers, when they meet
with anything to obstruct their passage, divide themselves and become
_horned_ as it were, and hence the ancients have compared them to
bulls."

C.B.

["M." (Oxford) refers our correspondent to Facciolati,
_Lexicon_, ed. Bailey, voc. _Corun_.]
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