Book I, fable 25, line 3.
Fables
“It is asserted that the dogs keep running when they drink at the Nile, for fear of becoming a prey to the voracity of the crocodile.”
— Pliny the Elder, book Natural History
Book VIII, sec. 148.
Naturalis Historia
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