vitulus

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Tyrrhenia, etc. The name Italy (Gr. Italia), which seems to have been taken from vitulus, to signify a land abounding in cattle, was applied at first to a very limited territory.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 8: Infamy-Lapparent 1840-1916 1913
Tum vitulus, bim& curvans jam comua frontey Quseritur: huic geminse nares, et fpiritos oris»

P. Virgilii Maronis Opera Virgil, Gilbert Wakefield 1796