Panther
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On the Nature of the Gods
Cited as an example of an animal with instinctive knowledge of an antidote to poison.
It has been heard that the panthers, which in barbarous lands are caught by poisoned flesh, have a certain remedy, which, when they have used it, they do not die;
De Rerum Natura
A predatory beast imagined attacking sleepers in nightmare.
By fangs of panther or of lion fierce.
On Hunting
One of the large foreign predators (panthers) said to be captured in mountain ranges beyond Macedonia and Syria, using poisoned bait or pit traps.
On the mountains they are sometimes poisoned, owing to the difficulty of the ground, with aconite.
Lions, leopards, lynxes, panthers, bears and all similar wild beasts are captured in foreign countries, about Mt.
They tie up a goat and put it on the pillar in the evening, and pile wood round the hole without leaving an entrance, so that the animals cannot see what lies in front.