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For if the best of those delicious fish we call muraenae flutae are taken on the coast of Sicily and the best sturgeons at Rhodes, it does not follow that they are of equal delicacy in all seas There are two kinds of asses, one wild, which is called the onager, of which there, are many herds in Phrygia and Lycaonia; the other domestic, as they are all over Italy.

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  1. noun A fast-running wild ass (Equus hemionus subsp. onager) of central Asia, having an erect mane and a broad black stripe along its back.
  2. noun An ancient and medieval stone-propelling siege engine.

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  1. Middle English, from Late Latin, from Latin, wild ass, from Greek onagros : onos, ass + agrios, wild; see agro- in Indo-European roots.

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  1. Latin, also onagrus, from Greek ὀναγρος, a wild ass, Middle Greek a kind of catapult, from ὀνος, an ass, + ἀγρός, wild, of the fields: see Agrion.
 

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