Dulcarnon

*Urry* says nothing, but quotes *Speght*, and *Skene*, and *Selden*. "*Dulcarnon*," says Speght, "is a proposition in *Euclid* (lib. i. theor. 33. prop. 47.), which was found out by Pythagoras after a whole years' study, and much beating of his brain; in thankfulness whereof he sacrificed an ox to the gods, which sacrifice he called Dulcarnon." *Neckam* derived it from *Dulia quasi sacrificium* and *carnis*. *Skene* justly observes that the triumph itself cannot be the point; but the word might get associated with the problem, either considered before its solution, puzzling to *Pythagoras*, or…