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"a torso, with limbs and head arranged round it -- presumably to make out how bold a hunter the bearer of the arms must have been" -- it is by no means certain that this is the meaning of the "lion couped in all its joints" in the arms of Maitland. --[[User:Daniel C. Boyer|Daniel C. Boyer]] 14:25, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)

==Lion as Leopard==

Saying that the lion was sometimes referred to as the "leopard" is misleading as it is its attitude which makes it a leopard. --[[User:Daniel C. Boyer|Daniel C. Boyer]] 14:23, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)
Saying that the lion was sometimes referred to as the "leopard" is misleading as it is its attitude which makes it a leopard. --[[User:Daniel C. Boyer|Daniel C. Boyer]] 14:23, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)

Revision as of 07:25, 16 December 2005

"a torso, with limbs and head arranged round it -- presumably to make out how bold a hunter the bearer of the arms must have been" -- it is by no means certain that this is the meaning of the "lion couped in all its joints" in the arms of Maitland. --Daniel C. Boyer 14:25, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)

Lion as Leopard

Saying that the lion was sometimes referred to as the "leopard" is misleading as it is its attitude which makes it a leopard. --Daniel C. Boyer 14:23, 15 Dec 2005 (CST)