Early Gothic: Section Six

Bestiary Lines 16-21
..........................Elephantem
.....................greci à mag-
.....................nitudine
.....................corporis uo-
.....................catum pu-
.....................tant. quod for-
.....................mam mon-
.....................tis perforat; Gre-
.....................ce enim mons
The Greeks think it is called elephant
from the vast size of its body,
because it resembles [perferat] the form of a mountain.
for in Greek a mountain
[is called eliphio] …

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