Aristotle [ca. 350 BCE] (De animalibus Book9, chapter 6.4] The females, as soon as their young are born, eat the chorium, and it is not possible to obtain it, for they seize upon it before it can fall to the ground; it appears to have some medicinal properties. The females are captured by the sound of the pipe and by singing, and they are charmed by singing. When two persons go out to capture them, one shows himself, and either plays upon a pipe, or sings, and the other strikes behind, when the first gives him the signal; when the ears of the deer are erect, it hears quickly, and cannot be deceived, as it may be if they hang down.- [Cresswell translation, 1887]

Isidore of Seville [7th century CE] (Etymologies, Book 12, 1:22) The young doe [dammula] is so called because she flees ‘from one’s hand’ [de manu]. She is a timid animal and unwarlike, concerning which Martial says: The boar is feared for his tusk, horns defend the stag; what are we unwarlike does [damae] but prey?- [Barney, Lewis, et. al. translation]

Thomas of Cantimpré [circa 1200-1272 CE] (Liber de natura rerum, Quadrupeds 4.30): A dampma or dammula is an animal, as Isidore says, so called because it escapes from the hand. As the Experimentator says, when the dampmula gives birth, it quickly eats the afterbirth, before it falls to the ground. And he thinks - the same Experimentator - about these things, that it is poison. For she is a timid animal and weak; of which Martial: The boar is feared for its teeth, the horns defend the stag; what are we, but prey? - [Badke translation/paraphrase]

Bartholomaeus Anglicus [13th century CE] (Liber de proprietatibus rerum, Book18.35): [Bartholomaeus uses the name damula for the goat in this chapter, probably incorrectly. The following description is probably of the doe (dammula) plus the stag, not the goat; it closely matches the doe/stag descriptions, but is highly unusual for the goat. It is included here for comparison.] Damula and Dama also is a wilde Goate, as Papias saith. And libro. 12. Isid[ore] saith, that the wild Goate is called Damula, and is a fearfull beast, and dare not fight, & so cannot defend him but by flight, and in stéede of armour and wepon, this wilde Goate hath ablenesse & lightnesse to runne and to fly. And Marcianus sayth. Dente tuetur Aper, defendunt cornua Ceruum. / Imbelles Damae, quid nisi praeda sumus? The Bore~> defendeth him with tuskes, and the Hart with hornes, and we wilde Goates fight not, what be we but pray? The wilde Goate loveth mountaines & woodes, and eateth medicinall hearbes & grasse, with good smell, and gathereth and biteth crops and stalkes of twigs, and of and of branches, and when he is wounded, he eateth Dragantea, and taketh so the arrow out of the bodie. The bloude thereof is medicinall, as Plin[y] sayth libr. 28. for it softneth sinews that be shronk, and doth away ache of the joynts, and smiteth and putteth out venime. Serpents hate and flye the wilde Goate, & may not suffer the breath of him, as hée saith. This Goate is most sharpe of sight, and swifte of course and of running. Looke before in eodem, De Caprea agrosti. - [Batman]