. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . ages ; per-haps the earliest of all belongs to the fifthcentury. The early naturalists, whether Greek,Roman, or Alexandrian, were not them the classification and orderly treat-ment of our experts would have presented nointerest. The Romans showed considerableingenuity in training pets or wild animals, andtheir officials were most active in obtainingwild beasts to grace their triumphs or toafford amusement to the degraded populacein the amphitheatre. But their authors, indealing with the habits of wild a
. Symbolism of animals and birds represented in English church architecture . ages ; per-haps the earliest of all belongs to the fifthcentury. The early naturalists, whether Greek,Roman, or Alexandrian, were not them the classification and orderly treat-ment of our experts would have presented nointerest. The Romans showed considerableingenuity in training pets or wild animals, andtheir officials were most active in obtainingwild beasts to grace their triumphs or toafford amusement to the degraded populacein the amphitheatre. But their authors, indealing with the habits of wild animals,showed no results of careful accustomed as they were to recordscraps of folk-lore or untrustworthy travellerstales, they never concerned themselves withthe truth or falsity of details which to us aremore important than wide and general obser-vations. Even the sober and accurate JuliusCaesar imagines that a kind of unicorn existsin Gaul. He soberly states, too, that elkshave no joints to their legs, with the result 6 Y^iSrP^,.r7r?-~^--^^.^^:^^^^
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