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never Sick but of Loathing ; and then the way to cure him 

 is to tie to him She Apes, which with their wanton mocking 

 drive him to Madness, and then when he hath tasted their 

 Blood it acts as a Remedy. Q. Sccevola, the Son of Publius, 

 was the first at Rome that, in his Curule .ZEdileship, exhibited 

 a Fight of many Lions together; but L. Sylla, who after- 

 wards was Dictator, was the first of all that in his Praetor- 

 ship exhibited an hundred maned Lions. After him Pompey 

 the Great shewed 600 of them in the Circus, and among 

 them were 315 with Manes. Ccesar> the Dictator, exhibited 

 400. The taking of them formerly was a hard piece of 

 Work, and was commonly in Pit-falls ; but in the Reign of 

 Claudius a Shepherd of Gsetulia taught the manner of catch- 

 ing them, a thing to be regarded as almost unbeseeming the 

 Name of such a Beast. This Gaetulian, when a Lion violently 

 assailed him, threw his Military Cloak over his Eyes. This 

 remarkable thing was soon after practised in the Arena ; so 

 that a Man would hardly have believed that so much Fierce- 

 ness should so easily be rendered inert by this slight covering 

 thrown on the Head, the Creature making no resistance, but 

 suffering himself to be bound fast, as if all his Vigour rested 

 in his Eyes. The less therefore is it to be wondered at that 

 Lysimachus strangled a Lion, 1 when by Command of Alex- 

 ander he was shut up alone together with him. The first 

 who subdued them to the Yoke at Rome, and joined them to 

 his Chariot, was M. Antony. And truly it was in the Civil 

 War, when the Battle was still in Contest in the Plains of 

 Pharsalia : not without some foretoken of the times, which 

 by that Prodigy gave them to understand that Men of a 

 high Spirit should come under the Yoke of Subjection ; for 

 that Antony was carried in this manner, with the Comic 



1 Plutarch, in the " Life of Demetrius," informs us that " Demetrius 

 having sent ambassadors to Lysimachus on some occasion or other, that 

 prince amused himself one day with shewing them the deep wounds he 

 had received from a lion's claws in his arms and thighs, and gave them an 

 account of his being shut up with that wild beast by Alexander the 

 Great, and of the battle he had with it." Pausanias, Seneca, and Justin, 

 mention this story ; but Q. Curtius doubts the truth of it.Wern. Clul. 



