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however, in time how to fight against the Elephants. They 

 broke their colossal legs with axes ; they threw in front of them 

 enormous stakes, which embarrassed or prevented their charging. 

 Later, the Romans themselves made use of Elephants in war, 

 and Ctesar found them of the greatest use to him in his cam- 

 paign in Gaul. At Rome Elephants often appeared in the 

 Coliseum, to fight with the gladiators ; and they were frequently 



Fig. 33. Head of the African Elephant. 



harnessed to the chariot which condu.cted the victors in triumph 

 to the Capitol. 



Caosar, to make his triumphal procession more striking and 

 magnificent, caused the Elejjhants he had taken in the battle of 

 Thap.sus to be brought to Rome. Then were seen forty of these 

 magnificent animals, arranged in two rows, each carrying a torch 

 in its trunk. The idea of this spectacle, which interested the 

 Romans much, was borrowed from the kings of Egjrpt and Syria, 



