Re:War Elephants, Part II: Elephants Against Wolves (2019)
by User23 on Friday October 23, 2020 @11:15PM
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I remember reading somewhere that Roman emperors would give troublesome patricians an elephant as a gift. If he let the elephant die it was a grave insult and the emperor would proscribe him and take all his stuff. And otherwise he’d be stuck paying for the upkeep of a useless elephant.
Back in India, my grandparents had a driver who later won the lottery. He used the winnings to buy two elephants, what he thought were a good investment (elephants are regularly rented out for expensive sums to temples for functions and celebrations).
Now he's a driver once more. But he has two elephants tho.