11-10-2011, 10:55 PM
Salvete omnes
I was going through the 1st Book of Maccabees and came across the following curious statement:
"And they (the Seleucids) shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries, to provoke them to fight".- Maccabees 1:Ch 6 vs 34.
"et elefantis ostenderunt sanguinem uvae et mori ad acuendos eos in proelium" - Vulgate
Rather odd way to provoke elephants to fight. Was this common in antiquity?
I was going through the 1st Book of Maccabees and came across the following curious statement:
"And they (the Seleucids) shewed the elephants the blood of grapes, and mulberries, to provoke them to fight".- Maccabees 1:Ch 6 vs 34.
"et elefantis ostenderunt sanguinem uvae et mori ad acuendos eos in proelium" - Vulgate
Rather odd way to provoke elephants to fight. Was this common in antiquity?
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