07-03-2013, 02:30 AM
Ave
I was reading Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" and he writes "The unpracticed elephants, whose uncouth appearance, it was hoped, would strike terror into the army of the north ...". This passage referred to the preparation of Didus Julianus to meet the Pannonian legions of Septimius Severus that were marching on Rome.
How accurate is this? I was rather surprised at the Praetorian Guard having elephants.
Thanks in advance.
I was reading Gibbon's "Decline and Fall" and he writes "The unpracticed elephants, whose uncouth appearance, it was hoped, would strike terror into the army of the north ...". This passage referred to the preparation of Didus Julianus to meet the Pannonian legions of Septimius Severus that were marching on Rome.
How accurate is this? I was rather surprised at the Praetorian Guard having elephants.
Thanks in advance.
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