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Mandeville's travels : the Cotton version
Mandeville, John, Sir., British Library. Manuscript. Cotton Titus C.16.
Hamelius, Paul, 1868-1922.
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Tigris.
—This pun is repeated in Gauthier de Lille's (or de Chatillon's) Alexandreis:
Tigri velocior ipso
Tigri qui celeri sortitur ab impetu nomen
Tigris aquas superat.
(ed. 1863, Book III., p. 70, l. 450 ff.)
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