• PugJesus@lemmy.worldM
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      27 days ago

      ‘Luca Bos’, they called them, when they first encountered them ~50 years before Hannibal crossed the Alps. ‘Lucanian Cows’ - because they first saw them in the region of Lucania, and had no other frame of reference for such beasts.

  • InverseParallax@lemmy.world
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    27 days ago

    Huh, I didn’t know the romans thought it was over.

    Figured they’d think it was just not worthy of their attention at that moment.