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grbs-2231	Nicholas, Nick	A Conundrum of Cats: Pards and their Relatives in Byzantium	1999	46	.pdf	application/pdf	19371	814	63	This means that the Cretan cat-pard was a cheetah-and, incidentally, that despite its modern denotation, the Italian gattopardo could also be glossed as II cheetah (French guepard; the normal Modern Italian term for cheetah is ghepardo.) We know from con­ temporary vases that Classical Athenians kept cheetahs as pets,10 and the cheetah is in its gross physiognomy similar to a leopard, though of a lankier buildY Though I do not pursue the issue in any greater detail here, there is reason to suspect that the ancient Greeks called any spotted great cat either panther or pard (n:av811P, 1tapOaAt<;), without any further refinement.	cache/grbs-2231.pdf	txt/grbs-2231.txt