Panther
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Cicero (Greek)
When Caelius the orator asked Cicero to send him panthers from Cilicia for a certain spectacle at Rome, Cicero, pluming himself upon his exploits, wrote to him that there were no panthers in Cilicia;
in the texts
On the Nature of the Gods
Cited as an example of an animal with instinctive knowledge of an antidote to poison.
De Rerum Natura
A predatory beast imagined attacking sleepers in nightmare.
Cicero
Wild cats sought by Caelius for a Roman spectacle, jokingly said by Cicero to have fled Cilicia.
When Caelius the orator asked Cicero to send him panthers from Cilicia for a certain spectacle at Rome, Cicero, pluming himself upon his exploits, wrote to him that there were no panthers in Cilicia;
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.
Lions, leopards, lynxes, panthers, bears and all similar wild beasts are captured in foreign countries, about Mt.
On the mountains they are sometimes poisoned, owing to the difficulty of the ground, with aconite.
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.