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The Wild Elephant and the Method of Capturing and Taming it in Ceylon

Note 127 — Chapter I · AN ELEPHANT CORRAL.

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Fire, the sound of a horn, and the grunting of a boar are the three things which the Greeks, in the middle ages, believed the elephant specially to dislike:

Πῦρ δὲ πτοεῖται καὶ κριὸν κερασφόρον, Καὶ τῶν μονιῶν τὴν βοὴν τὴν ἀθρόαν. Phile, Expositio de Elephante, 1. 177.

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