Lynx
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Lynxes · a lynx's hide · lynxes
in the texts
Aeneid
A lynx whose hide is worn as a mantle in Venus's huntress guise.
On Hunting
One of the large foreign predators (lynxes) said to be captured in mountain ranges beyond Macedonia and Syria, using poisoned bait or pit traps.
Lions, leopards, lynxes, panthers, bears and all similar wild beasts are captured in foreign countries, about Mt.
On the mountains they are sometimes poisoned, owing to the difficulty of the ground, with aconite.
They tie up a goat and put it on the pillar in the evening, and pile wood round the hole without leaving an entrance, so that the animals cannot see what lies in front.