[Sca-cooks] Onagers

[Chris Stanifer]

--- Terry Decker <t.d.decker at worldnet.att.net> wrote:

> Onager (Equus hemionus onager) means "wild ass" (onos, ass and agrios, 
> wild).  And , yeah, there's a stone chucking siege engine with that name.  I 
> don't have a diagram of the mechanism handy, but I wonder if the impetus may 
> not look like a mule kick.
> 
> Bear


I'd still like to see the reference for the Onager's ability to 'outrun any horse ever born'. 
I've personally owned at least one racing horse in my life, and it was pretty durned swift.

William de Grandfort

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