_The Hippopotamus_ (Vol. iii., p. 181.).--Your correspondent MR. E. S.
TAYLOR will find in Vol. ii, p. 458, an example of the word [Greek:
hippopotamos] cited from Lucian, a writer anterior both to Horapollo and
Damascius. In the same page is a reference to the story of the wickedness
of the hippopotamus in Plutarch; so that Horapollo and Damascius,
doubtless, borrowed from a common source, or repeated a current fable, to
be found in many writings then extant.