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» Elephant : cf. Ov. 7V. iv. 6. 7 Quaeqiie sui monitis 

 obtemperat Inda magistri | Bellua; Mart. v. 37. 5 pecudis 

 Indicae dentem. Called bo.i Liica by the Romans (Lucret. 

 V. 1300, 1337) because first seen by them in Lucania with 

 Pyrrhus : Plin. viii. 16 Elephantos Italia primum vidit Pyrrhi 

 regis bcllo et boves Lucas appellavit in Lucanis visos. 



* x^^^''V V x^P"^"'" A. 540 a 29. Testudo graeca L. (" Auf 

 alien Cykladen, selbst das von Tieren beinahe entblosste 

 Syra nicht ausgenommen, sehr gemein. Man halt sie haufig 

 im Hause gezahmt" Erh. p. 71), and T. marglnata Dumcril, 

 which, unlike the other, prefers wet places to dry and is 

 fairly common in the fresh-water pools of Naxos (Erh. I.e.). 

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 in great abundance (Tristram, p. 256). 



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 Turtle. See H. i. 397 n. 



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