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Equidae
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Equidae
a family of mammals, members of which have a single functional digit although the second and third digits persist as splint bones. Includes horses, wild horses, asses (donkeys) and zebras. Quaggas were a member of the family but are now extinct.
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Lewis must have been delighted to have hidden the pun on the Latin asinus in "as in us.
The thematic organization of Spirits in Bondage by Christopher, Joe R. / Mythlore
58) Asinus kann naturlich auch ubertragen einen torichten Menschen bezeichnen, s.
Der prolog der Metamorphosen des Apuleius als Spiegel des Gesamtwerkes by Haussler, Alexander / Ancient Narrative
In Plautus' "Comedy of Asses," its title alone suggesting the Asinus Aureus, the cheating husband Demaenetus and his son recline at table, drinking and cavorting with a prostitute, and the Plautine wife Artemona eavesdrops on them, apparently through a window of the house, and eventually bursts in on them much like Apuleius' Meroe does on Socrates.
Tale of Aristomenes: declamation in a Platonic mode by Smith, Warren S.; Woods, Baynard / Ancient Narrative
 
 
 
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