04-08-2006, 09:55 PM
Quote:It's like eastern armies always having elephants who are always scary and smelly
That's funny. I was just quoting Ammianus to that effect on another forum. I think every mention he makes of elephants encountered during Julian's campaign in Persia are accompanied by descriptions of them as huge, horrible, and dreadful--but then, they probably were.
[size=75:y4iezjz4]David Sullivan
Lynnwood, WA USA[/size]