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Definition of Onagri
1. onager [n] - See also: onager
Lexicographical Neighbors of Onagri
Literary usage of Onagri
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Selected letters of Cicero by Marcus Tullius Cicero (1900)
"The cynocephalus and onagri had no other value than that they were rare and
therefore expensive. — ad Magnum Pompeium: the cognomen, ..."
2. Annals of a Fortress by Eugène-Emmanuel Viollet-le-Duc (1876)
"Two onagri sometimes hurled stones at the workmen; but they, well shielded ...
All this time two catapults and two onagri showered long darts and stones on ..."
3. The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1899)
"... a powerful cross-bow, which darted short but massy arrows; the onagri, or wild
asses, which, on the principle of a sling, threw stones and bullets of an ..."
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