On the Antiquities of Prussia

...the size of its horns has been seen to be such that, as Pliny testifies, the horns of a single head have filled two urns. The barbarians drink from these, with a silver ring encircling the part where it is brought to the lips. For they are hollow and shaped into a point. Others tip them with a point. The Romans used to cut them into plates so that they might cast the light they enclosed more widely, and they used them in place of lamps and lanterns. Those who exercise themselves in the hunting of them, if they have killed many, gain great praise by bringing the horns into public view as testimony. Anciently, they were accustomed to capture them in pits made for this purpose, and to slaughter those captured, perhaps because at that time they lacked iron; but the youth of a later age, considering it unworthy for such an outstanding beast to perish by that kind of death, decided to pursue them with dogs and to attack them with hunting spears, both close at hand and from a distance, always hiding themselves behind sturdier trees so that they themselves would not be attacked in turn by the beast, which, greedy for revenge, remains with its horns stuck in the tree until, wounded by the shafts of those pursuing, it falls; with such a death they honor the most ferocious beast. This beast has somewhat long hairs under its chin in the manner of a beard; in other respects, it appears very similar to a bull. Gaius Caligula, the Roman Emperor, was the first to show aurochs in the arena at Rome, which the ignorant common people then falsely believed were buffaloes. This land also produces maned bisons, which are of the breed of wild cattle, but in our age they are quite infrequent. They say that these alone...