Could he have seduced or subdued the Gepidae or Lombards of Pannonia, the Greek historian is confident that he must have been destroyed in Thrace.] [Footnote 103: The king pointed his spear--the bull overturned a tree on his head--he expired the same day.

Such is the story of Agathias; but the original historians of France (tom.ii.p.202, 403, 558, 667) impute his death to a fever.] [Footnote 104: Without losing myself in a labyrinth of species and names--the aurochs, urus, bisons, bubalus, bonasus, buffalo, &c., (Buffon.Hist.Nat.tom.xi., and Supplement, tom.iii.

vi.,) it is certain, that in the sixth century a large wild species of horned cattle was hunted in the great forests of the Vosges in Lorraine, and the Ardennes, (Greg.Turon.tom.ii.l.

x.c.10, p.

369.)].