Editing Antelope (section)

==Etymology==
[[File:Topsell-5.jpg|thumb|right|Illustration from ''[[Edward Topsell|The History of Four-footed Beasts]]'' (1607)]]
The English word "antelope" first appeared in 1417 and is derived from the [[Old French]] ''antelop'', itself derived from [[Medieval Latin]] ''ant(h)alopus'', which in turn comes from the [[Byzantine Greek]] word ἀνθόλοψ, ''anthólops'', first attested in [[Eustathius of Antioch]] ({{circa|336}}), according to whom it was a [[fabulous animal]] "haunting the banks of the Euphrates, very savage, hard to catch and having long, saw-like horns capable of cutting down trees".<ref>[http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/antelope "Antelope".] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140418222556/http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/Antelope |date=2014-04-18 }} ''Dictionary.com''. ''Online Etymology Dictionary''. Douglas Harper, Historian. Accessed 1 September 2008.</ref> It perhaps derives from Greek ἀνθος, ''anthos'' (flower) and ώψ, ''ops'' (eye), perhaps meaning "beautiful eye" or alluding to the animals' long eyelashes. This, however, may be a [[folk etymology]] in Greek based on some earlier root. The word ''talopus'' and ''calopus'', from Latin, came to be used in [[heraldry]]. In 1607, it was first used for living, [[Deer|cervine]] animals .