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The Macedonians attacked by the dent-tyrant or Odontotyrrannus.
—14th century, ms. of Thomas de Kent's romance.
Bibliothèque nationale fr. 24364
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Odontotyrannos (Greek: όδοντοτύραννος), also odontotyrannus or dentityrannus[a] ("tooth-tyrant") is a mythical three-horned beast said to have attacked Alexander the Great and his men at their camp in India, according to the apocryphal Letter from Alexander to Aristotle and other medieval romantic retellings of Alexandrian legend.[2]

  1. ^ Cary, George (1956). The Medieval Alexander. University of Cambridge Press. pp. 35–36.
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