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: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help); [ Reprint], C. N. Potter, 1976Ctesias wrote about the Manticore in his book Indica. He claimed to have seen a live, caged specimen that was brought by an Indian dignitary from his homeland and displayed at court in Persepolis [...].
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: ISBN / Date incompatibility (help); [ Reprint], C. N. Potter, 1976The manticore.. with a leonine torso and legs, batlike wings, am man's head, a tail tipped with iron spikes,.. stns 6 feet at the shoulder and meausres 15 feet in length. It has a 25-foot wingspan
the monster mantitaur – that's half manticore, half centaur, so human plus lion plus scorpion plus horse – Shlub
Dante's image was profoundly modified, however, by Pliny's description – followed by Solinus – of a strange beast called Mantichora (Historia Naturalis, VIII, 30) which has the face of a man, the body of a lion, and a tail ending in a sting like a scorpion's