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The capture and taming of lions

Posted by Xenomanes on December 7, 2016
Posted in: Voyage.

andromedaCapturing lions was once a difficult task, chiefly effected by means of pitfalls (Caesar squandered his seed in the circus). Yet though of such a nature and of such ferocity this animal is frightened by wheels turning round and by empty chariots, and even more by the crested combs and the crowing of cocks, but most of all by fires.

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