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Dude wouldn't even know what an elephant was, most likely
That would make it even more terrifying.
That’s how they got the term!
'Luca Bos', they called them, when they first encountered them ~50 years before Hannibal crossed the Alps. 'Lucanian Cows' - because they first saw them in the region of Lucania, and had no other frame of reference for such beasts.