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Thus, it is characteristic to understand something unknown in terms of some known example, i. e., the Romans who first saw an elephant, called it "bos lucani."
Criminal Psychology: a manual for judges, practitioners, and students 1911
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"...on the top of an infant sandalwood-tree he saw a beetle, a large beetle, one of the lucani, begin the process of opening its wing-covers..."
--Patrick O'Brian, The Truelove, 159
March 11, 2008