Wednesday 13 August 2008

Aelian

Roman biologist (third century A.D.) and author of The Nature of Animals, in
which he reported, “The inhabitants of the shores of the Ocean tell that in former
times the kings of Atlantis, descendants of Poseidon, wore on their heads, as a mark
of power, the fillet of the male sea-ram [a dolphin], and that their wives, the queens,
wore, as a sign of their power, fillets of the female sea-rams [perhaps narwhals].”

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