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Sallust says, to my amazement, that camels were then seen by the Romans for the first time. He must have thought that the soldiers of Scipio who conquered Antiochus before this, and those who had lately fought ArchelaĆ¼s at Orchomenus and Chaeroneia, were unacquainted with the camel.
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