Aelian's History of the Animals (in Latin)

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Aelian's History of the Animals (in Latin)

Aelian is used as one of the sources for the following Legenda:

Bonnacon
Castor
Vipera

Aelian's work was originally written in Greek, but there is a modern (19th century) translation into Latin which can be consulted here:

http://penelope.uchicago.edu/Thayer/E/Roman/Texts/Aelian/home.html

Here is the original publication information along with some notes by the editor of the website, Bill Thayer:

Although Aelian was a Roman, he preferred to write in Greek, and the original text of the De Natura Animalium is in that language. I know of no English translation in the public domain, though, so I've transcribed the Latin translation by Friedrich Jacobs in the Frommann edition, Jena, 1832.