10 RELIQUm AQUITANICJE. 



driven by instinct or determined by reason. There has been with all people of 

 antiquity a tradition that the first men inhabited caves. This remembrance 

 has been preserved among the Chinese and the Egyptians*. Plato observes that 

 Homer has attributed this kind of life to the savages of Sicily; and he himself says 

 the same of the ancient inhabitants of Greece. It is apropos of the latter that 

 Pliny says, "formerly caves served them for houses" t. Pliny also cites the 

 Troglodytes, or cave-dwellers, among the .(Ethiopians, and in another region 

 of Africa. He adds that it had been the custom also among the Scythians, those 

 Barbarians who, according to Diodorus Siculus, pretended to an origin of 

 higher antiquity than the Greeks or even the Egyptians. Lastly, it is written 

 in the Scandinavian ' Edda ' that, " during the combats of the Gods and Giants, 

 Men sighed and groaned at the entrances of their caves " J. 



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* Boulanger, 'L'Antiquite devoilee par les usages,' &c., liv. vi. ch. 11, 1777. 

 t " Antea specus erant pro domibus." Plin. Nat. Hist. lib. vii. c. 57. 

 Edda, Fab. xxxii. 



