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82 See on this subject: P.E.P. Deraniyagala (1938): 159–160. The largest elephants, those most suited to warfare, are found in Sri Lanka (see K. Karttunen, 1997: 194, on references to them in Graeco-Roman sources). Compare the critical remarks of Th.R. Trautmann (1982): 279–280 on the reliability of the classical sources, in particular Aelian. See on the elephant in Aelian’s De natura animalium: H.H. Scullard (1974): 222–230. See on the import of elephants from Sri Lanka: P.E.P. Deraniyagala (1938): 138; S. Digby (1971): 69–73. See on Sinhalese elephant-lore: P.E.P. Deraniyagala (1938).