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E 7 epha,.t. In Greeks it is call’d, ias®*;, and fometimes which 
is rendred Bos Martins , whereby they mean the Elephant. In La- 
tin ’cis call’d Barr ns, from the Voice ; or fome think that Barms 
is the proper Name, as in Horace — Lfigrts dignijfima Barns ; /y vr 
and that Barr ire, to Bray as an Elephant, comes from it. Xhusi 2 , 
we have from hellonius , Elephantes harrire dtctmus, ficut Over dect- 
mus ball are. Amongft the Indians they are call d Prajij and Tax- 
ilia. Thus Eli arms fays, Mtxitni Elephantcrttm qui iliic funt Brafij 
dtcli , fccundt zero ab ijs exiJHm ant ttr Tax ilia, in the Punic and//, 4 ppp 
Moorijh Language it is call’d Cafar-, hence it is, as Serviur lays, l2 ‘ 
C afar, vel quod cafo Matris Ventre natus tfi , vel quod Avhs ejits in 
Africa rnanii propria occidit Elephant em, qui Cafar Pamrum Lingua* 
It is alfo call’d in Latin, Bos, Lucas , and Elephantas, from the 
Greek: 
The Elephant is faid to live to a great Age: Some afferting,- , ^ v 
they live to One Hundred and Twenty Years-, Others, to 200 
Years; fome to 2,00; and there are who affirm, that they can c,> ‘' l? ' 
live till they be 5 co Years old, and that they are very ftrong and 
robuft at the 200 Year. Tentz.eli»s tells us, that when a certain 
German, who had fometimes been in th e Indies, faw thefe Bones 
he treats of, concluded from certain Marks the Indians have, that 
that Elephant could not have been under 200 Years old. Mr. Ea- Tamnicrr 
•vernier fays, he could never learn exaftly how long the Elephants Travels in 
liv'd •, but that their Keepers have told him, they knew fuch an India, p. 
Elephant to have been in their Great Grand father, Grandfather, 
and Father’s Cuftody, which he modefldy computes not to have 
been under 120 or 1 50 Years. And ’cis memorable, which Juba 
King of Lyfca told, as it is related by Philofiratus, that the Knights 
of Lybla at a certain time fought upon Elephants, fome whereof 
had a Tower engraven upon their Teeth, others nothing •, and 
when by the Night they were feparated, fuch as had the Tower 
were beat, and fled to the Nigh Hill Atlas: And that the fame 
Juba after 4C0 Years took one of them, which had this Enfign fo 
lively engraven, a, if it had been but lately done, i am not to 
anfvver for the truth of this, but they feem generally to live to a 
great Age-, for the Keeper told, that the Elefbant which fell in 
our way was 76 or 28 Years old •, notwithfcanding which (he 
feems to have been Young, according to the Term of Life, for 
the Epiphyfe s feparated from the Bones by Boyling as cafily , as 
thofe of an Human Subject would have done at the Age of ;o or 
12. However, ’iis an Animal Suhjedt to many Difiempers ; fo 
