Plinies Naturall Hifiorie. 



A mcatj and eat i\othing . King luha likewile reporteth alfb of an Elephant that made conit 

 to another wjoman, v^ho made and (bid {\\'cet ointments and perfumes. AIJ ihefe tcftified theic 

 love and kindnefle^by thefe tokens : joy they would ,at the fight of them, and looke pleafandy 

 upon them : makctoward them they would(after their rude and homely manner)by ail nieanes 

 of flatterie : and efpecially in this, that they would fave whatfoever people caft unco them for to 

 cat, and lay the fame full kindly in their lap^ and bofomes. But no marvell is it that they fhould 

 lovciwho are fo goodof memorie. For the fame hibd faithjThat an Elephant tooke knowledge 

 and acquaintcnance of one man in his old age,and after many a yeerejwlio in his youth had ben 

 his ruler and governorHe alfirmeth alfo^that they have by a fecret divine inftin6t,a certain fence 

 of juftice and righteous dealing. For when king B.tcchm meant to bee revenged of 3oEkphantSj 



B v-phich he had caufed to be bound unto ftakes^and fet other 3 o to run upon them, appointingal- 

 fo certaine men among to pricke & provoke them theretojyet for all ihat^could not one of them 

 be brought for to execute \his butchericjuorbemmifters of anothers crueltie. 



Chap, vi^ 



'^When^Ek^bantsrverefrftfimemltalie, 



THc firft time that jEIephar.ts were fcene in Italic, was during the warre of king Pyrrhmmd 

 they called them by the name g{Luc£ bovcs ^ul^ucmz oxen jbecaufe they had the fii ft light 

 of them in theLucanes countrey, and it was in the 472 yecre after the cicties foundation'. 

 C But in Rome it was ieven veers after ere they were feene,and then they were fhev^'ed in a triumph. 

 But in the yeere 5023a number of tliem were feene at Rome by occalion of the vidorie of Z Me- 

 ttihi^ Fomifex over the Carthaginians : which Elephants^ivere taken in Sicilie . For 142 of 

 them were conveied over upon plankcs and fiatbottomes, which were laid upon ranks of great 

 lunnes and pipes let thicke one by anctther. Vtrrui^s faith^that they were c2^:^i^A to fight in the 

 great Cirque or fhew placCjand were killed there with ihot of darts and javehns for want of bet- 

 ter counfell,and becaufe they knew not well what to doe with them : for neither were they willing 

 to have them kept and nourilliedjne yet to bee beftowed upon any kings. L,?:[o faith they were 

 brought out only into thefnevv-place or ca-que aforefaidjandfor to make them more contemp- 

 tible^were chafed round about it by certaine fellowes hired thereto, having for that puipofe ccr- 

 ^ taine (laves andperche^ not pointed with yron, but headed with bals like foiles. But what be- 

 came of them afterward, ihofe aiuhours make no mention ; who are of opinionjthat they were 

 not killed. 



Chap. vii. 



^ Thslrf.ghti and i omhateu 



MVch renowmed is the light of oneRomane with anElephanr.at whattime as i^mihil 

 forced thofe captives whom he had taken of our men .to skirmill'j one againf\ another to 

 the utteirance. For the onely Romane that remained unflaine in that unnatural! conflid^^ 

 E hee would needs match with an Elephant, and fee the combare himfelfejafliiring him, upon his 

 word,that if he could kill the beaiihe fiiould be difmiffcd and fent home with Hie andlibertic.So 

 this prifbner entered into fingle fight x'ijith the Elephant^ and to the great hearts greefe of the 

 Carthaginians flew him out-right. o^^-y^/^'^/Zthen fent him away indeed according to promife 

 and covenant, but confidcring better the confequence of this matter, and namely, that if this 

 combate were once by him bruited abroad^the bcafts would bee lefTe regarded^and their fervice 

 in the warres not efleemed : made after him certaine light horfemen to overtake him upon the 

 way, to cut his throat, fo makinghim fure for telling tales. Their long fnout or trunke which the 

 Latins call I-zohjlis^niay be eafily cut off 5 as it appeared by experience in the wars againft king 

 Pprhm, FcncjielU yvriieth. That the firft fight of them in Rome, was exhibited in the grand 

 F Cirque,during the time that cLwdim Palcher was -fidile C urule5when M.Antomui and A^Pofi- 

 himW'S were Confiils : in the ^50 yeere after the cicie of Rome was builtJn like manner32cyceE 

 after^whcn the Luculli were /Ediies Curule, there was reprefented a combat betweene buls and 

 Elephants. Alfo in the fccond Confultliip of Cn,Pom^tm at the dedication of the temple to r<?- 

 ntis Vii-icr^^c.p.ooiA\^mpi as fome write, 1 7 fought in the great fhew place.In which fokmnitie 



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