ὄρυξ, ῠγος, ὁ
(ὄρυγξ [[ 5th c.AD(?): Hesychius Legal icographus)] Refs 5th c.AD+], pickaxe or any sharp iron tool for digging, [[ Anthologia Graeca 6.297 (Phanias Epigrammaticus). ] Refs]
__II a kind of gazelle or antelope, in Egypt and Libya, so called from its pointed horns, beisa, Oryx leucoryx, described as μονόκερως, [[ 4th c.BC: Aristoteles Philosophus “Historia Animalium” 499b20, “PA” 663a23, compare 3rd c.BC(?): Callixinus Historicus 2, LXX.Deu.14.5, 1st c.AD: Philo Judaeus 2.353, 1st-2nd c.AD: Plutarchus Biographus et Philosophus 2.974f, 3rd c.AD: Oppianus Apamensis Epicus “Cynegetica” 2.446, 4.34, 2nd-3rd c.AD: Aelianus “De Natura Animalium - Ar.Byzantine Epit.” 7.8. ] LXX+4th c.BC+]
__II.2 ὄ. τετράκερως Indian four-horned antelope, Tetraceros quadricornis, [[[prev. work] 15.14 ] Refs]; also an Indian gazelle, [[[prev. work] 13.25. ] Refs]
__III a great fish, perhaps narwhal, Monodon monoceros, or a kind of whale, [[ 1st c.BC-1st c.AD: Strabo Geographus 3.2.7. ] Refs 1st c.BC+]