From Aeliani de natura animalium libri XVII, VI.xxii (see also III.xxxi). In the translation after Gesner's, from the Jacobs edition of 1832 (p. 86; Greek, p. 134):
XXII. Gallinaceum ac ignem, leo, pardalim hyæna, stellioniem scorpius hostiliter odit, et eo admoto torpore afficitur. Draconem elephantus perhorrescit. Omne jumentum murem araneum reformidat. Astacus plypum extimescit. Canem de tecto propellere et dejicere non possis, periculi enim magnitudine veretur.
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