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are like great hands. The fingers upon them are like those 

 on the hands, and the middle one is the longest ; the sole 

 of the foot is like a hand, except that it extends the whole 

 length of the hand like a palm, and is hard at the extremity, 

 and is a bad and obscure representation of a heel. 



4. The feet are used for both the purposes of hands and 

 feet, and are bent like hands. The humerus and the femur 

 are short compared with the cubitus .and the leg. The navel 

 is not prominent, and there is a hard place about the region 

 of the navel. Like quadrupeds, the upper part of the bodv 

 is much larger than the lower, almost in the proportion of 

 five to three, and the feet are like hands, and as it were 

 made up of hands and feet, a foot as far as the extremity 

 of the heel, and the remainder like a hand, for the fingers 

 are furnished with something like a palm. 



5. The ape passes more of its time as a quadruped than 

 a biped, and like a quadruped, it has no nates, nor has it 

 a tail like a biped, but only something in representation of 

 a tail. The pudendum of the female resembles that of a 

 woman ; that of the male is more like a dog s. The monkey, 

 as I said before, has a tail, and all the internal parts of 

 the body are like those of man. The external parts of vivi 

 parous quadrupeds are of this nature. 



CHAPTER VI. 



1. OVIPAROUS and sanguineous quadrupeds (for no san 

 guineous land animal that is not either a quadruped or apodal 

 is oviparous) have a head, neck, back, upper and lower parts 

 of the bodv, and fore and hind legs, and something resem 

 bling a breast, like oviparous quadrupeds : most of them also 

 have a large tail, some a small one; all of them have many toes 

 and divided feet, and all the organs of sense, and a tongue, 

 except the Egyptian crocodile. And in this respect it re 

 sembles some fishes, for the tongue of fishes is thorny, and 

 not free, and in some the place for the tongue is altogether 

 smooth, and without division (so that nothing is visible), 

 unless the lips are drawn aside. 



2. They have no ears, only a passage for hearing ; neither 

 have they any mamma 1 , and the penis and testicles are in 

 ternal, and not external. They have no hair, but are covered 

 with scales, and ail are furnished with sharp teeth. The 



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