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Elephant Tactics: Amm. Marc. 25. 1. 14; Sil. 9. 581–3; Lucr. 2. 537–9.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 February 2009

E. L. B. Meurig Davies
E. L. B. Meurig Davies
Affiliation:
WINCHCOMBE, CHELTENHAM.
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post hos elefantorum fulgentium formidandam speciem et truculentos hiatus uix mentes pauidae perferebant; ad quorum stridorem odoremque et insuetum aspectum magis equi terrebantur. (Amm. Marc. 25. 1.14.)

COKNELISSEN, Mnemosyne, xiv (1886), 280, comments: ‘Non intellego fulgentium. Minime audiendus est Wagnerus, qui fulgentes elephantes dictos esse contendit ob cutem glabram. Corrigendum puto ingentium. Porro non satis intellego quomodo hiatus elefantorum militibus pauorem incutere potuerit. Wagnerus, qui omnia con-coquere solet, interpretatur proboscidas. Nescio an scripserit A. barritus.’

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Research Article
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The Classical Quarterly , Volume 1 , Issue 3-4 , July 1951 , pp. 153 - 155
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Copyright © The Classical Association 1951

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