[4] Pliny says:—"Decem annis gestare in utero vulgus existimat."—Η. N. viii. 10.

The same strange notion is referred to by Plautus, Stich. A. 1, s. iii.

"Audivi sæpe hoc vulgo dicier,
Solere elephantum gravidam perpetuos decem
Esse annos."

[5] Hesiod extends the crow's life to 270 years. The passage referred to has been preserved by Plutarch:·—

"Έννέατοι ζώει γενεὰς λακέρυζα κορώνη
Aνδρῶν ἡβώντων."

"Servatura diu parem
Cornicis vetulæ temporibus Lycem."—Hor, iv. Od. xiii. 34.

[6] "Indi autem, quod calore vicini ignis, sanguis in atrum colorem versus est, nigri sunt facti."—Hyginus.

See also Ovid, Met. ii. 235.

[7] According to the Commentators, it is the καρυόφυλλον, or clove-tree, which produces this wonderful effect upon the elephant, making his breath

"Like the sweet south,
That breathes upon a bank of violets,
Stealing and giving odour."—Twelfth Night.