Citations:hybrid

The original use by: Pliny the Elder, Nat. Hist. viii. 213

lxxix 213 In nullo genere aeque facilis mixtura cum fero, qualiter natos antiqui hybridas vocabant ceu semiferos, ad homines quoque, ut C. Antonium Ciceronis in consulatu collegam, appellatione tralata, non in suibus autem tantum, sed in omnibus quoque animalibus, cuiuscumque generis ullum est placidum, eiusdem invenitur et ferum, utpote cum hominum etiam silvestrium tot genera praedicta sint.

Contemporary translation of Pliny's passage

[1] Pliny the Elder, The Natural History (eds. John Bostock, M.D., F.R.S., H.T. Riley, Esq., B.A.), BOOK VIII. THE NATURE OF THE TERRESTRIAL ANIMALS. CHAP. 79. (53.)--ANIMALS IN A HALF-WILD STATE.

In no species is the union with the wild animal so easy as in that of the swine; the produce of such unions was called by the ancients hybrid, or half savage; which appellation has also been transferred to the human race, as it was to C. Antonius, the colleague of Cicero in his consulship. Not only, however, with respect to the hog, but all other animals as well, wherever there is a tame species, there is a corresponding wild one as well; a fact which is equally true with reference to man himself, as is proved by the many races of wild men of which we have already spoken

The first translation in English of the same passage (the original quotation of 1601)

The Historie of the World. Commonly called, THE NATURALL HISTORIE OF C. PLINIUS SECUNDUS. Translated into English by PHILEMON HOLLAND Doctor in Physic. 1601 THE EIGTH BOOKE OF THE HISTORIE OF NATVRE, WRITTEN BY C. PLINIVS SECVNDVS.CHAP. LIII. Of beasts halfe savage.

THERE is no creature engendreth so soone with wild of the kind, as doth the swine: and in good sooth such hogges in old time they called Hybrides, as a man would say, halfe wild: insomuch as this tearme by a translation, hath been attributed to mankind. For so was C. Antonius, colleague with Cicero in the Consulship, nicknamed. And not in swine onely, but also in all other living creatures, looke where there be any tame and domesticall, you may find also wild and savage of the same kind, seeing that even of wild men there be so many sorts in divers places, as we have before said.