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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 Caesar 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 
harnessed to the chariot which conducted the victors in triumph 
to the Capitol. 
Caesar, to make his triumphal procession more striking and 
magnificent, caused the Elephants Re had taken in the battle of 
Thapsus 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 Egypt and Syria, 
