# Herodotus 1920: Histories, Book 4, chapter 191

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# Histories, Book 4, chapter 191

Herodotus, 1920. Harvard University Press.

Herodotus's description of western Libya beyond the Triton river, mountainous, wooded and full of wild beasts, among them lions, elephants and bears.

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Cited to show that Greek writers a generation before Plato already placed elephants in western Libya.

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