Hanno
26. A Carthaginian of uncertain date, of whom a foolish story is told by Aelian (
Ael. VH 14.30), that he taught a number of birds to repeat the words " Hanno is a god," and then let them loose; but the birds forgot their lesson as soon as they had regained their liberty.
This anecdote is supposed by Bochart and Perizonius (
Ad Ael. l.c.) to refer to I lanno the navigator, but certainly without foundation.
It seems more probable that it may be the same who is mentioned by Pliny (
Plin. Nat. 8.21), and by Plutarch (
De Praec. Polit. vol. ix. p. 191, ed. Reisk.), as having been condemned to banishment because he had succeeded in taming a lion.