' The island has on all sides a multitude of sharp promontories , whence the ancients compared it to a sheep-skin stretched out ; and as they called those promontories horns , the island was called Cerastia and the inhabitants Cerastae . And this probably gave rise to the fable that the Cyprians had formerly horns on their foreheads , according to Ovid , Met . X . 222 .'

Frons erat , unde etiam nomen taxere Cerastae .

Voyage to the Island of Cyprus (1720)