Indus qui elephantum regebat descendere eum ratus, more solito elephantum procumbere iussit in genua; qui ut se submisit, ceteri quoque'ita enim instituti erant'demisere corpora in terram.
The Indian who was managing the animal, thinking that the king was dismounting in the usual manner, ordered the elephant to kneel; when he did so, the rest of the animals also'for so they had been trained'let down their bodies to the ground.
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