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175–235 Italy

Claudius Aelianus (Ancient Greek: Κλαύδιος Αἰλιανός, Klaúdios Ailianós; c. 175 – c. 235 AD), commonly Aelian), born at Praeneste, was a Roman author and teacher of rhetoric who flourished under Septimius Severus and probably outlived Elagabalus, who died in 222.

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It is commonly reported they sing sweetly, but I never heard a Swan sing, nor perhaps any man else: Yet it is believed she sings, and then especially (as is said) she sings most sweetly and pleasantly when she draws near her end. They cross the Sea and fly too over it, yet their wings never are tired.

The art of weaving and the gifts of the goddess Ergane, Spiders neither know nor require: For what should such a Creature doe with woven garments? The web is onely spred as a net for such things as fall into it, whilest she standing still, immovable, keeps watch: Whatsoever falls in she eats; it being as much as the web can hold, is enough to satisfie her hunger.

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