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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;zumbly, post: 2552014, member: 57495&quot;]When Pompey the Great dedicated his theatre, the Curia Pompeia, in 55 BC, one of the cruel spectacles he devised was the slaughter of twenty elephants by a contingent of spearmen.&nbsp; Rather than being awed and entertained, the people ended up pitying the elephants and cursing the name of Pompey. Cassius Dio wrote that <i>&quot;[the elephants] were pitied by the people when, after being wounded and ceasing to fight, they walked about with their trunks raised toward heaven, lamenting so bitterly as to give rise to the report that they did so not by mere chance, but were crying out against the oaths in which they had trusted when they crossed over from Africa, and were calling upon Heaven to avenge them.&quot;</i>[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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