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DINOTHERIUM
, an See also:extinct mammal, fossil remains of which See also:Cilicia for See also:Rome (18o) and became a member of the See also:senate. occur in the See also:Miocene beds of See also:France, See also:Germany, See also:Greece and During the reign of See also:Commodus, Dio practised as an'See also:advocate at See also:Northern See also:India
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These consist chiefly of See also:teeth and the bones of the See also:Roman See also:bar, and held the offices of See also:aedile and See also:quaestor
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He the See also:head
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An entire See also:skull, obtained from the See also:Lower See also:Pliocene was raised to the praetorship by See also:Pertinax (193), but did not beds of Eppelsheim, See also:Hesse-See also:Darmstadt, in 1836, measured 4a ft. assume See also:office till the reign of Septimius See also:Severus, with whom he in length and 3 ft. in breadth, and indicates an See also:animal exceeding was for a See also:long See also:time on the most intimate footing
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By Macrinus the See also:elephant in See also:size
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The upper See also:jaw is apparently destitute of he was entrusted with the See also:administration of See also:Pergamum and incisor and canine teeth, but possesses five molars on each See also:side, See also:Smyrna; and on his return to Rome he was raised to the with a corresponding number in the jaw beneath
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The most consulship about 220
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After this he obtained the proconsulship remarkable feature, however, consists in the front See also:part of the of See also:Africa, and again on his return was sent as See also:legate successively lower jaw being See also:bent downwards and bearing two tusk-like to See also:Dalmatia and See also:Pannonia
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He was raised a second time to incisors also directed downwards and backwards
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Dinotherium the consulship by See also: |
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