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- Hircocervus abstract "The hircocervus (Latin: hircus, "billy goat" + cervus, "stag") or tragelaph (Greek: τράγος, tragos, "billy goat" + έλαφος, elaphos, "stag"), also known as a goat-stag or horse-stag, was a legendary creature imagined to be half-goat, half-stag. In his work De Interpretatione, Aristotle utilized the idea of a fabulous goat-stag to express the philosophical concept of something that is knowable even though it does not really exist. In Plato's Republic, Socrates speaks of his own image-making as similar to that of painters who paint goat-stags, combining the features of different things together (488a).The word hircocervus first appears in the English language in a medieval manuscript dating from 1398 (now at the Bodleian Library).A hircocervus is depicted in a wall-painting called The Trusty Servant, painted by John Hoskins in 1579. dating from the 1580s. It hangs outside the kitchen of Winchester College in Hampshire, England. The author Arthur Cleveland Coxe described "the time-honoured Hircocervus, or picture of 'the Trusty-servant,' which hangs near the kitchen, and which emblematically sets forth those virtues in domestics, of which we Americans know nothing. It is a figure, part man, part porker, part deer, and part donkey; with a padlock on his mouth, and various other symbols in his hands and about his person, the whole signifying a most valuable character."The painting had a didactic function: it is accompanied by allegorical verses that associate the hircocervus servant's various animal parts with distinctive virtues that the college's students were meant to follow.The Latin verses have been translated into English as:Umberto Eco refers to a hircocervus in his novel The Island of the Day Before.".
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- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Fantasy_creatures.
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- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Medieval_European_legendary_creatures.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Category:Winchester_College.
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- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Didacticism.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink England.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink English_language.
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- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Hampshire.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink John_Hoskins_(poet).
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Latin.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Platos_Republic.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Socrates.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Stag.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink The_Island_of_the_Day_Before.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink The_Republic_(Plato).
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink USA.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Umberto_Eco.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink United_States.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink Winchester_College.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLink File:Winchester_Trusty_Servant_2.jpg.
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Hircocervus".
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLinkText "Trusty Servant".
- Hircocervus wikiPageWikiLinkText "tragelaph".
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- Hircocervus subject Category:Fantasy_creatures.
- Hircocervus subject Category:Fictional_hybrid_life_forms.
- Hircocervus subject Category:Medieval_European_legendary_creatures.
- Hircocervus subject Category:Winchester_College.
- Hircocervus hypernym Creature.
- Hircocervus type Article.
- Hircocervus type FictionalCharacter.
- Hircocervus type School.
- Hircocervus type Article.
- Hircocervus type School.
- Hircocervus comment "The hircocervus (Latin: hircus, "billy goat" + cervus, "stag") or tragelaph (Greek: τράγος, tragos, "billy goat" + έλαφος, elaphos, "stag"), also known as a goat-stag or horse-stag, was a legendary creature imagined to be half-goat, half-stag. In his work De Interpretatione, Aristotle utilized the idea of a fabulous goat-stag to express the philosophical concept of something that is knowable even though it does not really exist.".
- Hircocervus label "Hircocervus".
- Hircocervus sameAs Ircocervo.
- Hircocervus sameAs m.05f354v.
- Hircocervus sameAs Q3801858.
- Hircocervus sameAs Q3801858.
- Hircocervus wasDerivedFrom Hircocervus?oldid=677508319.
- Hircocervus depiction Winchester_Trusty_Servant_2.jpg.
- Hircocervus isPrimaryTopicOf Hircocervus.