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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

'Luca Bos', they called them, when they first encountered them ~50 years before Hannibal crossed the Alps. 'Lucanian Cows' - because they first saw them in the region of Lucania, and had no other frame of reference for such beasts.