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Natural HistoryPliny recounted anecdotes about the alleged intelligence and religiousness of elephants, the medical skill of the hippopotamus and the love that dolphins showed for music and young children. (Richard Ryder, Animal Revolution, "The Ancient World"). ["The agonized trumpetings," often quoted as part of Cicero's letter to M. Marius, are actually related by Pliny in his Natural History.] Book VIII, The Nature of the Terrestrial AnimalsChapter 7, The Combats of ElephantsWhen, however, the elephants in the exhibition given by Pompeius had lost all hopes of escaping, they implored the compassion of the multitude by attitudes which surpass all description, and with a kind of lamentation bewailed their unhappy fate. So greatly were the people affected by the scene, that, forgetting the general altogether, and the munificence which had been at such pains to do them honour, the whole assembly rose up in tears, and showered curses on Pompeius. Book IX. The Natural History of FishesChapter 10. Other Wonderful Things Relating to DolphinsDolphins, also form among themselves a sort of general community. One of them having been captured by a king of Caria and chained up in the harbour, great multitudes of dolphins assembled at the spot, and with signs of sorrow which could not be misunderstood, appealed to the sympathies of the people, until at last the king ordered it to be released. The young dolphins, also, are always attended by a larger one, who acts as a guardian to them; and before now, they have been seen carrying off the body of one which had died. | ||||||||
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1st c. | Pliny the Elder [23-79], 