Camelus


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CAMELUS (Camel).-This well-known and, in its native countries of the East, most useful animal, is represented on coins as the common symbol of Arabia. --See the ARAB. ADQ. of Trajan; the RESTITVTORI ARABIAE of Hadrian; also REX ARETAS, in the AEmilia family; BACCHIVS IVDAEVS, &c.

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