Studies in Philology, Volume 80University of North Carolina Press, 1983 - 133 pagina's |
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an elephant with a pig . For the elephant , when he hears a pig squeal , flees " ) . In fact , there was a long and active tradition of reporting how elephants were frightened by the squealing of pigs , beginning in antiquity . Some ...
an elephant with a pig . For the elephant , when he hears a pig squeal , flees " ) . In fact , there was a long and active tradition of reporting how elephants were frightened by the squealing of pigs , beginning in antiquity . Some ...
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... elephant . The result was panic and retreat . It is clear , then , that the power of pigs to terrify elephants by squeal- ing was well reported from antiquity on , including in the context of battle ( where indeed the story will ...
... elephant . The result was panic and retreat . It is clear , then , that the power of pigs to terrify elephants by squeal- ing was well reported from antiquity on , including in the context of battle ( where indeed the story will ...
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... elephants are wild and are not associated with an enemy . But interestingly , Mercier's text does not mention battle in the usual terms either : he says that Alexander drove off this animal which was infestum classibus — a reasonable ...
... elephants are wild and are not associated with an enemy . But interestingly , Mercier's text does not mention battle in the usual terms either : he says that Alexander drove off this animal which was infestum classibus — a reasonable ...
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