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Others, improving on that chimera, asserted, that this glorious city represented an inheritance derived from ancient Carthage; here, it was said, survived the arts and arms of that injured state; hither, across Bilidulgerid, had the children of Phoenicia fled from the wrath of Rome; and the mighty phantom of him whose uplifted truncheon had pointed its path to the carnage of Cannæ, was still the tutelary genius watching over a vast posterity worthy of himself.
Then were beheld, and familiarized to the eyes of the Roman mob to children and to women, animals as yet known to us, says Herodian, only in pictures. There was beheld the lion from Bilidulgerid, and the leopard from Hindostan the rein-deer from polar latitudes the antelope from the Zaara and the leigh, or gigantic stag, from Britain.
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