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Tyson, Edward, 1650-1708

"A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients"

lib. 14. p. 451.]
[Footnote C: _Lucian_ lib 1. _verae Histor_. p.m. 373.]
[Footnote D: _Arist. Hist. Animal._ lib. 8. cap. 28.]
[Footnote E: _A. Gellij. Noctes. Attic._ lib. 9. cap. 4.]
[Footnote F: _Henr. Stephani de Ctesia Historico antiquissimo disquisitio,
ad finem Herodoti._]
But this Story of _Ctesias_'s _speaking Pygmies_, seems to be confirm'd by
the Account that _Nonnosus_, the Emperour _Justinian_'s Ambassador into
_AEthiopia_, gives of his Travels. I will transcribe the Passage, as I find
it in _Photius_,[A] and 'tis as follows:
[Footnote A: _Photij. Bibliothec._ cod. 3. p.m. 7.]
[Greek: Hoti apo taes pharsan pleonti toi Nonnosoi, epi taen eschataen ton
naeson kataentaekoti toion de ti synebae, thauma kai akousai. enetuche gar
tisi morphaen men kai idean echousin anthropinaen, brachytatois de to
megethos, kai melasi taen chroan. hypo de trichon dedasysmenois dia pantos
tou somatos. heiponto de tois andrasi kai gynaikes paraplaesiai kai
paidaria eti brachytera, ton par autois andron.


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