elephants [
“betray'd] with holes,”
JULIUS CAESAR, ii. 1. 205.
“Elephants were seduced into pitfalls, lightly covered with
hurdles and turf, on which a proper bait to tempt them was exposed. See Pliny's Natural History, B. viii.”
(STEEVENS)
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A General Glossary to Shakespeare's Works. Alexander Dyce. Boston. Dana Estes and Company. 1904.
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