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The Boys' and Girls' Pliny

Note 85 — Chapter I · ELEPHANTS; THEIR CAPACITY.

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Tables and bedsteads were not only covered or veneered with ivory among the Romans, but, in the later times, made of the solid material, as we learn from Ælian and Athenæus.

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