Rome put a 120-foot SNAKESKIN on display and we just... moved on?

ok this one is not a legend in the fuzzy sense. this is in PLINY. and in Livy's account, and Valerius Maximus, multiple Roman sources, about a documented military event. 255 BC, First Punic War. consul Regulus is camped on the Bagradas river in north Africa (that's the Medjerda in modern Tunisia). ……