Horns

1. Moses' face, Ex. ch. xxxiv. (*karan*, Heb.), shot out beams or *horns* of light (from *keren*, Heb.); so the first beams of the rising sun are by the Arabian poets compared to horns. Absurdly rendered by Aqu. and Vulg. (facies) *cornuta erat*. Whence painters represent Moses as having horns.—Gesenius, *Heb. Lex.* 2. There appear many reasons for likening rivers to bulls. Euripides calls Cephisus taumomorphos, and Horace gives Aufidus the same epithet, for the same reason probably, as makes him call it also "longe sonans," "violentus," and "acer;" viz., the bull-like roaring of its waters, a…