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54 TIGRIS, IN Persian, An Arrow ; in Lat., A Tiger. An interesting instance of the opposite phenomenon, the name of a weapon giving rise to the name of an animal, is seen in the Latin tigris. The word goes back ultimately, through the Greek riypi
55 tion is due to the burden rather than the supporting object. The figurative use arises then from the general resemblance between the pendent baggage and a rider astride his animal. If one may judge from the animal names (or derivatives from them) included under Machinae Bellicae in Du Cange,*^" a siege during the Middle Ages might have sug- gested a zoological garden. The list is as follows Aries^^^ Musclus Asellus Onager Berbices Panthera Cancer Scropha Catus Spingarda*^^ Colobrina Spingardella Ericius Sus Falconeta Talpa Gatta Talparii Hirundo Turturela Locusta Vulpes Lupus Vulpecula^si Moschetta Du Cange, Tom. vii, p. 515. =" Not listed, but referred to under lupus and vulfes respectively. *"Vocis etymon a Germ. Sprintz, quod muscetam, genus accipitrum, significat, deducit Ferrarius. Du Cange s. v. spingarda. :
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