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the shield in those days was certainly regarded as genuine, and could still inspire dread in the hereditary foes of its whilom owner.
A curiosity to be seen in Rome were the tusks of the Calydonian boar which the Emperor Augustus carried off from the Temple of Athena at Tegea. Pausanias tells us : ^ "As to the boar's tusks the keepers of the curiosities say that one of them is broken, but the remaining one is pre- served in the imperial gardens, and is just half a fathom long." He adds that the boar's hide was still exhibited in the temple at Tegea : " It is rotting away with age, and is now quite bare of bristles." He is much more scornful about the tusks of the Erymanthine boar preserved at Cumae, stating flatly : " The assertion is without a shred of probability." ^
In Rome, too, was the skeleton of the sea monster who wished to devour Andromeda : it had been brought from Joppa,^ where the chain which bound the maiden was still preserved.^
The imperial gardens at Rome contained other attractions than the tusks of the Calydonian boar, for they seem to have included a kind of zoological garden where were many rare and curious beasts. Pausanias relates : " I saw white deer at Rome, and very much surprised was I to see them.^ I saw, too, the Ethiopic bulls which they call rhinoceroses, because they have each a horn (keras) on the tip of the nose [rhis], and another smaller horn above the first, but on their heads they have no horns at all. I saw also Paeonian bulls : they are shaggy all over. And I saw Indian camels in colour like leopards." *^ From the name Ethiopian bulls which Pausanias applies to the animal, it
1 Pausanias, viii. 46. i and 5; Callim., Hym. in Dian., 218 ff. ; cf. Procopius, Bell. Goth., i. 15. p. 7713; Lucian, De indoct., 14. - Pausanias, viii. 24. 5. ^ Pliny, N.H., ix. 11.
Josephus, Bell. Jud., iii. 420. ^ Pausanias, viii. 17. 4.
- Pausanias, ix. 21. 2.
