| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 8.23 | Plin. Nat. 8.24 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 8.25 |
There was an ancient decree of the senate, which prohibited
animals being imported from Africa into Italy; but Cn. Aufidius, the tribune of the people, [Note] procured a law repealing this, which allowed of their being brought over for the games of the Circus. Scaurus, in his ædileship, [Note] was the first who sent over the parti-coloured kind, one hundred and fifty in the whole; after which, Pompeius Magnus sent four hundred and ten, and the late Emperor Augustus four hundred and twenty.
| Pliny the Elder, Natural History (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Plin. Nat.]. | ||
| <<Plin. Nat. 8.23 | Plin. Nat. 8.24 (Latin) | >>Plin. Nat. 8.25 |
