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Plutarch, Whether Land Or Sea Animals Are More Clever, 972c

nan as Ptolemy Philopator has testified; for when he had vanquished Antiochus and wished to honour the gods in a really striking way, among many other offerings to commend his victory in battle, he sacrificed four elephants. Thereafter, since he had dreams by night in which the deity angrily threatened him because of that strange sacrifice, he employed many rites of appeasement and set up as a votive offering four bronze elephants to match those he had slaughtered. Social usages are to be found no less among lions. For young lions take along with them to the hunt the old and slow; when the latter are tired out, they rest and wait, while the young lions hunt on. When they have taken anything

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pisis	Naiden (2013) 124
raphia	Naiden (2013) 124
syria	Naiden (2013) 124
van straten,f.'	Naiden (2013) 124