Note 4 — BOOK IV.
Rowland Smith translation
Pliny says:—"Decem annis gestare in utero vulgus existimat."—Η. N. viii. 10.
The same strange notion is referred to by Plautus, Stich. A. 1, s. iii.
"Audivi sæpe hoc vulgo dicier, Solere elephantum gravidam perpetuos decem Esse annos."