[679] Latos humeros 2. 721. ‘Pellis erepta iuvenco’ seems simply to mean a bullock's hide. ‘Pugnatori’ then will go with ‘cui,’ i. q. “pugnanti” (see on 12. 614): this was his accoutrement in war. Heyne in his smaller edition, followed by Gossrau and Forb., connects ‘pugnatori’ with ‘iuvenco,’ like “bellator equus,” supposing that Ornytus overcame a wild bull and stripped it of its skin. Pliny 30. 15 talks of “pugnator gallus.” Hunters wore a beast's hide as a chlamys or scarf, v. 576 above, 1. 323. Serv. erroneously supposes the meaning to be that Ornytus wears a corslet of bull's hide.
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