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reputation. Among others, we here read an inscription to the 
following effect : Eutychis/* of Tralles/^ was borne to the 
funeral pile by twenty of her children, having had thirty in 
all/'^* Also, Alcippe^"^ was delivered of an elephant^® — ^butthen 
that must be looked upon as a prodigy ; as in the case, too, 
where, at the commencement of the Marsian war,^^ a female 
slave was delivered of a serpent.^^ Among these monstrous 
births, also, there are beings produced which unite in one body 
the forms of several creatures. For instance, Claudius Caesar 
informs us, in his writings, that a Hippocentaur was born in 
Thessaly, but died on the same day : and indeed I have seen 
one myself, which in the reign of that emperor was brought 
to him from Egypt, preserved in honey.^^ We have a case, 
Solinus, the ape of Pliny, absolutely takes the meaning of this pas- 
sage to be, that Eutychis herself was exhibited on the stage by the orders 
of Pompey. 
15 For Tralles, in Asia Minor, see B. v. c. 29. 
1^ Cuvier speaks of the wife of a porter at the Jardin du Roi, at Paris, 
who, to his knowledge, had been the mother of thirty children. 
^'^ It seems doubtful whether Pliny means that the statue of Alcippe was 
also to be seen in the Theatre of Pompey, Tatianus tells the same story 
of one Glaucippe, and it is not improbable that under that name he refers 
to the same person. He says that a bronze statue of her was made by 
Niceretus, the Athenian. Hardouin suggests that this is the story alluded 
to by Livy, B. xxvii., and by Valerius Maximus, B. i. c. 6, in their state- 
ment that, among other portents, a boy was born with the head of an ele- 
phant. 
1^ Cuvier remarks, that it is not an uncommon circumstance, both in 
man and in other animals, for an atrophy of the maxillary bones to cause the 
nose to sink down, and produce some resemblance to the trunk of an 
elephant. To this circumstance, he refers the tales met with, of women, 
sows, and dogs having produced elephants ; see also Val. Maximus, B. vi. 
c. 5. — B. 
19 As to this war, see B. ii. c. 85. The portents observed on this oc- 
casion were collected by the historian Sisenna, as we learn from Cicero, De 
Divin. B. ii. 
20 We find that this incredible tale is not only told by Julius Obse- 
quens, but, according to Dalechamps, by Cornelius Gemma, a compara- 
tively modern writer. — B. 
21 Cuvier remarks, that, in certain quadrupeds, individuals are occa- 
sionally born with the upper jaw preternaturally small, so much so, that 
the lower jaw, by its projection, bears some resemblance to a human chin. 
He had seen a case of this description at Geneva, in a calf, supposed, even 
by persons of information, to be the produce of an unnatural connection of 
a cow with a Savoyard shepherd. This subject is treated very philoso- 
phically by Lucretius, B. v. c. 876, et seq. With respect to the sup- 
posed Hippocentaur of Thessaly, Cuvier remarks upon the successive 
