Cornua

Each lateral ventricle consists of a central part or body, and three prolongations from it, termed cornua (Figs. 735, 736). ❋ Unknown (1918)

In all Mammals, each cerebral hemisphere contains a cavity which is termed the 'ventricle,' and as this ventricle is prolonged, on the one hand, forwards, and on the other downwards, into the substance of the hemisphere, it is said to have two horns or 'cornua', an 'anterior cornu,' and a 'descending cornu.' ❋ Thomas Henry Huxley (1860)

Pliny (viii. 3) quotes Herodotus about the buying of ivories and relates how elephants, when hunted, break their "cornua" (as Juba called them) against a tree trunk by way of ransom. ❋ Anonymous (1855)

Cerasta enim Grece cornua dicuntur serpens que hic cornutus esse, ut supra memorauimus perhibetur per quem digne aduentus antichristi assertur, quia contra uitam fidelium cum morsu pestifere predicationis armabitur et iam carnibus potestatis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Fit iterum cerastes in semita que quos fideles repperit et sese ad precepti celestis angusta itinera constringens non solum nequitia callide persuasionis impedit sed etiam terrore potestatis premit et in persecutionis angore post beneficia ficte dulcedinis, exercet cornua potestatis. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cerastes serpens dictus, eo quod in capite cornua habeat similia arietum; KERATA enim Graeci cornua vocant: sunt autem illi quadrigemina cornicula, quorum ostentatione, veluti esca, inlice sollicitata animalia perimit. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Cerastes serpens dictus eo quod in capite cornua habet similia arietum, cerusta Greci cornua dicunt. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Pliny (viii. 3) quotes Herodotus about the buying of ivories and relates how elephants, when hunted, break their “cornua” (as Juba called them) against a tree trunk by way of ransom. ❋ Unknown (2006)

Verba ligant hominem, ut taurorum cornua funes, as bulls 'horns are bound with ropes, so are men's hearts with pleasant words. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Sapientes portant cornua in pectore, stulti in fronte, saith ❋ Unknown (2007)

El dilectum tuum e potestate canis — Ah! Audisti me inter cornua unicornium! ❋ Unknown (2007)

Effuso cernens fugientes agmine turmas, Quis mea nunc inflat cornua Faunus ait. ❋ Unknown (2007)

[6042] Tam apta nuptiis quam bruma messibus, as welcome to a young woman as snow in harvest, saith Nevisanus: Et si capis juvenculam, faciet tibi cornua: marry a lusty maid and she will surely graft horns on thy head. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Effusas cernens fugientes agmine turmas; quis mea nunc inflat cornua Faunus ait? ❋ Unknown (2007)

Edouches per Indiam habentur, quod ferarum genus satis est maius nostris communibus equis, geren in fronte tetri capitis tria longa cornua, ad formam pugionis, ex vtraque parte scindentia, vt eis nonnunquam interficiant Elephantes. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Nam postquam equum, bouem vel hominem, etiam asinum occiderit, leuat et asportat pleno volatu: tanquam cornua bouis aut vaccae sunt illi vngulæ, de quibus etiam fieri solent ciphi ad bibendum, qui plurimùm reputantur preciosi. ❋ Unknown (2004)