For it was the custom for commanders, in their triumph, to immolate an ox, but in their ovation, a sheep: hence they named it Ovation, from the Latin ovis.
"Plutarch-Lives-of-the-noble-Grecians-and-Romans"
Clough, Arthur Hugh
4, 6, 8, Bharal or ovis nahura.
"The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir"
Sir James McCrone Douie