420 Ulisse Aldrovandi

but we believe it is more effective if, amidst the multitude of monsters of this kind, we proceed through the sequence of years and enumerate them individually.

IV. Thus, in the year of our Lord 120, it is recorded that a two-headed ox was seen in France, just as it is represented in the illustration below. Similarly, in the year 573, at the time when the Romans launched a war against the Persians, many portents were seen foreshadowing Roman disasters; likewise, at the start of the war, a calf was born whose neck supported two heads. Again, according to Lycosthenes, in the town of Thurgau in the year fourteen hundred and thirty-three

IV. Two-headed ox.