lo A Philological Bjfay concerning 



hmjelffays all he has wrote is very true. Adding , that fome things which 

 he defcribes, he had feen himfelf ; and the others^ he had learn dfiom thofe 

 that had feen them : That he had omitted a great many other things more 

 wonderful, becaufe he would notfeem to thofe that have not feen them, to write 

 incredibilities. But notwithftanding all this, Lucian (a) will not be- 

 lieve a word he faith 5 for he tells us that Ctefas has wrote of India , 

 "A [JMn auuTvq uS^, fxkn. a,?^H e?7rov7(^ mis<nVf What he neither farv himfelf ^nor 

 ever heard from any Body elfe. And Arijiotle tells US plainly, he is not fit 

 to be believed : 'Ev '^ r^ Ivhz^ S><; (pnn K^Moia?, hk av <l^i^-mg@^ (/>). And 

 the fame Opinion A. Gellius (0 feems to have of him, as he had likewife 

 of feveral other old Greeks Hijiorians which happened to fall into his 

 hands at BrHndufum^ in his return from Greece into Italy ; he gives this 

 Character of them and their performance : Erant autem ijli omnes iihri 

 Gneci, miraculorHmfabularnmquepleni: res inandit£^ incredula, Scriptores 

 veteres non parv£ authorifatis, Arifteas Proconnefius, © Ifagonus, dS^Ni- 

 ca:enfis, & Ctefias,d^ Oneficritus, & Polyftephanus, & Hegefias. Not 

 that I think all that Ctefas has wrote is fabulous ^ For tho' I cannot 

 believe his Jpeakjng Pygmies, yet what he writes of the Bird he calls B/Tfa- 

 %^, that it would fpeak Greek, and the Indian Language, no doubt is ve- 

 ry true 5 and as H. Stephens (d) obferves in his Apology for Ctejias, fuch 

 a Relation would feem very furprifing to one, that had never feen nor 

 heard of a Parrot. 



^ut th\s Story o( Ctejias's Jpeakjng Pygmies, feems to be confirm'd by 

 the Account that Nonnofus, the Emperour Jujiinian's Ambaflador into 

 /Ethiopia, gives of his Travels. I will tranfcribe the Paffage, as I find 

 it in Photius (e) , and 'tis as follows : 



''Otj X^ "? px^aztv Tikiovli tzS Nov- Naviganti a Pharfa Noanofo, df 



>0(74), '^^ 7" i^ctrhuu T^ vY[wx>v f^^llwlyi' ad extremam ufque infularum delato^ 



ttoTi -zviov Si 77 awoi^m, ^oZfAxt )C) ax5- tale quia occurrit, vel ipfo audita ad- 



aaj{. di'iTurji yi^ ttoi fxo^:flw ixkvy^lSi' mirandum. Incidit enim in quofdam 

 cLv ^-^mv Iv^oodinvlw, 0^)^v1ix7vig Q to . forma qitidem d^figitra hnmana , fed 



fjJcyi^^, -kj iAAy\.a<n t ')^^aLv. \:fs^ 3 brevijfimos, d^ cut em nigros, totum.- 



t^'^v Si^aa'jy^Jvoig Sia vruvloi; tS que pilofos corpus. Sequebantur viros 



maiux,1(^. bi-TTDvh 3 Tvig cd^^ai ;t, tcquales famina, d>" pueri adhuc hre* 



y^tacSnAi; Tm^Tihmtcti it) TmiSit^a. i-n viores. Nudi omnes agunt,peUetan- 



^^.yvTiscty 7^^ vm^, aZtm dv^^Sv. tum brevi adultiores verenda teBi, 



-^vyAo'i 3 Wv ciTmvlii' yfktw Si^^^utli -oiri pariter acf(emin£ : agrefte nihil^ 



•nvi iJAzoM T aj^S, nviojii^J.Xv^ov, d neque ejferum quid pne fe ferentes. 



-jiPjk^iQrM-nc, 6;tjw/a)? izv^^ig -A Kxt yj- ^tin & vox illk hu'mana,fed omni- 



%'a.iKii. ay^iov ?) iSiv l-Tn^^KviuAo hS\ hus, etiam accolk. prorfus ignota lin- 



dimfXiP^v- a'Mx f(^i pxvtw il;)^ov f/Av g^a, multoque amplius Nonnoji fociis. 



t£'f9gaiTO^x>, ^[vucgov g 7mv1a,7ru(sir- Vivunt marinis oftreis, & pifcibus e 



(a) Lui'un lib. I. vera Hijlor.^.w. ■^■7 ■^. (b) Arifl.Hifl.Ammal.lih.S.cip.28. (c) A.Gellij No^esAttic. 

 lib. 9. cap. 4. (d) ffenr. Stephmi de Ctefa kifiorko antiquijjimo difquifitio, ad jinem Herodoti, (e) Photi} 

 Mibliotkc. cod. 3. p. m. 7. 



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