2 § O o On the Representations of Animals. 155 Elsewhere we find the lion cautiously emerging from a stoutly-built timber cage (Fig. J&). He has been captured in a netor snare and shut up in this narrow prison until the day of somegreat hunt.1 When that arrives the door is raised at a… … Fig. 77.—Lion and lioness in a park. British Museum. hardly be free from danger but that the lion is too pleased to findhimself at liberty to look behind him.2 1 On the subject of these great hunts and their arrangements, see Rawlinson,The Five Great Monarchies, vol. i. pp. 505-512. The custom is…
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