BUCEPH`ALUS

BUCEPH`ALUS
   (i. e. ox-head), the horse which Alexander the Great, while yet a youth, broke in when no one else could, and on which he rode through all his campaigns; it died in India from a wound. The town, Bucephala, on the Hydaspes, was built near its grave.

The Nuttall Encyclopaedia. . 1907.

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