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173.13. alces: this name is undoubtedly elks, but the description is widely unlike and quite unrecognizable. 173.15.

crurahabent: the same story is told by Pliny, H. N. viii. 16, 39. 173.17.

siconciderunt: cf. 172 3 and note. By what tense should this perfect be rendered? The same construction occurs below in l. 20, cum est animadversum, and in l. 23, cum reclinaverunt. 173.21.

omnes: with arbores. 173.22.

ab radicibus, at the roots.—accīdunt, cut into.—tantum ut, etc.: lit. so far that the perfect appearance of them standing is left; translate, so that to all appearances they are standing firmly.


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