Note 088
From Chapter 12 of the Decline & Fall

Carinus gave an hippopotamus (see Calphurn. Eclog. vii. 66). In the latter spectacles I do not recollect any crocodiles, of which Augustus once exhibited thirty-six. Dion Cassius, 1. Iv. [c. 10] p. 781.

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