Sometimes she went and told her mother how naughty her daughter was, even to calling her an aurochs.
"Dutch Fairy Tales for Young Folks"
William Elliot Griffis
This chief, as the story runs, was once out hunting the aurochs with a large following, accompanied by his dog Molda, and being arrived in a beautiful country through which flowed a pretty stream, he determined to settle there, called the river the Moldava, built a city which he named Roman, reduced the inhabitants and their chiefs to submission, and became the first Voivode of Moldavia.
"Roumania Past and Present"
James Samuelson
The aurochs is the European Bison, and is one of the largest and noblest of the genus.
"Anecdotes of the Habits and Instinct of Animals"
R. Lee