"_Ignorabat quods plenderet entis faciei ejus_. Vulgatus interpres reddidit. _Ignorabat quod cornuta esset facies sua_, quia verbum _Karan_ denominativum nominis _Keren, cornu_; opinatus est denotare, _cornua habere_; hine nata opinio, Mosis faciem fuisse cornutam. Sed nomen [Hebrew: keren] ob similitudinem et ad _radios_ transferri, docet Haliæ, m. 4. ubi de fulminibus dicitur.... Hic denotat _emisit radias_, i.e. splenduit." LXX. [Greek: dedoxastai]. Our version, _shone_. R. ad Psal. xxii. seems to say, that in Arabic there is the like metaphor, of the sun's rays to a deer's horns. R. adds, that the Jews also attributed horns to Moses in another sense, figuratively for power, as elsewhere. _Tauriformis._--The old scholiasts on Horace say that rivers are always represented with horns, "propter impetum et mugitum æquarum." "Corniger Hesperidum fluvius." An old modern commentator observes, that in Virgil "Rhenus bicornis," rather applies to its two æstuaries. When Milton says (xi. 831.) "push'd by the horned flood," he seems rather to mean, as Newton explains him, that "rivers, when they meet with anything to obstruct their passage, divide themselves and become _horned_ as it were, and hence the ancients have compared them to bulls." C.B. ["M." (Oxford) refers our correspondent to Facciolati, _Lexicon_, ed. Bailey, voc. _Corun_.] _Horns_ (No. 24. p. 383.).--1. Moses' face, Ex. ch. xxxiv. (_karan_, Heb.), shot out beams or _horns_ of light (from _keren_, Heb.); so the first beams of the rising sun are by the Arabian poets compared to horns. Absurdly rendered by Aqu. and Vulg. (facies) _cornuta erat_. Whence painters represent Moses as having horns.--Gesenius, _Heb. Lex._ {420} 2. There appear many reasons for likening rivers to bulls. Euripides calls Cephisus taumomorphos, and Horace gives Aufidus the same epithet, for the same reason probably, as makes him call it also "longe sonans," "violentus," and "acer;" viz., the bull-like roaring of its waters, and the blind fury of its course, especially in flood time. Other interpretations may be given: thus, Milton, Dryden, and others, speak of the "horned flood," i.e., a body of water which, when it meets with any obstruction, divides itself and becomes _horned_, as it were. See Milt. P.L. xi. 831., and notes on the passage by Newton and Todd. Dryden speaks of "the seven-fold _horns_ of the Nile," using the word as equivalent to winding stream. It would be tedious to multiply examples. 3. Of this phrase I have never seen a satisfactory explanation. "Coruna nasci" is said by Petronius, in a general sense, of one in great distress. As applied to a cuckold, it is common to most of the modern European languages. The Italian phrase is "becco cornuto" (horned goat), which the Accademici della Crusca explain by averring that that animal, unlike others can without anger bear a rival in his female's love.