[841] Plin. lib. vi. cap. 31.
[842] Hist. Anim. lib. x. cap. 40.
[843] Plin. lib. xxviii. cap. 4.
[844] Plin. lib. xi. cap. 31.
[845] Plin. lib. v. cap. 9. This crocodile was still remaining in the author’s time.
[846] Lib. xii. cap. 19.
[847] Plin. lib. viii. cap. 12. Valer. Max. lib. i. cap. 8. Orosius, lib. iv. cap. 8. Jul. Obsequens de prodigiis, cap. 29. Hujus serpentis maxillæ usque ad Numantinum bellum in publico pependisse dicuntur. May not this animal have been the Boa constrictor?
[848] Cicero in Verrem, iv. cap. 46. Valer. Max. lib. i.
[849] Scaliger De Subtilit. lib. xv. exercit. 246.
[850] Plin. lib. ix. cap. 5, and v. 13. 31. Strabo, lib. xvi.