ON MARVELLOUS THINGS HEARD

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32 Aristotle
§ 177 · They say that elephants are pregnant during the space of two years,
while others say during eighteen months; and that in giving birth they suffer hard
labour.
§ 178 · They say that Demaratus, the pupil of the Locrian Timaeus, having
fallen sick, was dumb for ten days; but on the eleventh, having slowly come to
his senses after his delirium, he declared that during that time he had lived most
agreeably.