Rome destroyed Seleucid Elephants

[D B Campbell]

I doubt whether the Romans ever destroyed war elephants; probably, there's a misunderstanding of the Peace of Apamea, in which Rome insisted that Antiochus the Great would surrender his animals.

Good point. But Walbank explains that, at Apamea, "The elephants were not all handed over, and the Romans took steps to hamstring them only in 163/2 (xxxi. 2. 11); cf. Scullard, The Elephant, 185–8".