i^ A Thilologkal Effaji concerning 



Adrian Spigelius, who produces a Witnefs that had examined the very 

 place, where the Pygmies were faid to be ; yet upon a diligent enquiry, 

 he could neither find them, nor hear any tidings of them. Spigeliuf (ti) 

 therefore tells us. Hoc loco de Pygmsis dicendum erat , qui vnta^ -Twyov©^ 

 diSfi a jiatura^ qatz ulnam nan cxcsdunt. Verum ego PGetartifft fabulas ejfe 

 crediderim, pro qiiibus tamen Ariftoteles rainimi haheri vult^fid veram ejjh 

 Hiftoriam. 8. Hift. Animal. 12. ajfeverat. Ego quo minus hoc jlatuam^ 

 turn Anthoritate primum Do5iijJimi Strabonis i. Geograph, coaBm fitm^ 

 turn potijjiffium nunc moveor^ quod no^ro tempore^ quo tmlla. Mundi pars efi, 

 quam Nautamm Jndtijiria nan perlitjirarit , nihil tamen unquam Jimile aut 

 vifum ei?, aut auditum. Accedit quod Francifcus Alvarez httfitanm^ qui 

 ea ipfa laca peragravit, circa qu£ Ariftoteles Pygmaos ejje fcribit^ nallibi 

 tamen tarn parvam Gentem afe conj^eSiam tradidit^ fed Populum ejfe Medio- 

 crkjiatur£^ & ^thiopes tradit. 



I think my felf therefore here obliged to make out, that there were 

 fuch Creatures as Pygmies, before I determine v/hat they were, fince the 

 very being of them is called in queftion, and utterly denied by fo great 

 Men, and by others too that might be here produced. Now in the do- 

 ing this, ^r//?(?f/e's Aflertion of them isfo very pofitive, that I think there 

 needs not a greater or better Proof ^ and it is fo remarkable a one, that 

 5 find the very Enemies to this Opinion at a lofs, how to (hift it off. To 

 lelTen it's Authority they have interpolated the Text, by foifting into the 

 Tranjldiion what is not in the Original ; or by not tranllating at all the 

 moft material paflage, that makes again ft them 5 or by miferably gloffing 

 it, to make him fpeak what he never intended: Such unfair dealings 

 plainly argue, that at any rate they are willing to get rid of a Proof, 

 that otherwLfe they can neither deny, or anfwer,. 



Arijiotle's Text is this, which I fhall give with Theodorus Gaza's Tranf- 

 lation : for difcourfing of the Migration of Birds, according to the Sea- 

 fon of the Year, from one Country to another, he faith (vp) : 



Mila. fMvtlw (p^ivoTTM^vlou'lmiiMpJ.- Jam ab Aufttmnali JEquino&io ex 



au^dx. tS TIovIh K; t^ 4tJ)(^P'^y 'P^y°'''l<=^ Ponto, Locijqne fiigidk fnghmtHye- 



•7X)v '^"^ovla. •^(^iJuccva: /xild ^ r!w sag/- mem fnturam. A Verno autem ex 



!4?ta, cACT^ ^^VMV, e^i nig irnmi; ra? tepida Regione ad f:igidam fefe con- 



■\u-)^^H<;^<^'&Hii.'ixcL TO KctiJi^Axxflci.' TO. fjiAv, ferunt, <eftus metu futuri : & alia de 



7y QT/t. T^ iJ^tJi TDTTODv wTtuHfjuevx TO^ lock vicink difcedunt , alia de idti- 



jJuda'^oXctgy Tiz '■^iK^dicrr'lif i^a.Tav,M<; mk , prope dixerim, ut Grues faci' 



e-iTT&if, 01^ a? yiogivtii "TmScrt. Milct- unt, qu£ ex Scythick Campk ad Pa- 



/SaMjscji -j^ w. T^ "S.haj^kS.v dg to IAm ludes JEgypto fuperiores, unde Nilm 



TO a.vco "ng Aiyjwfa^o^v N&iA©u p&i;. profluit^ veniunt, quoin loco pugnare 



Eri 3 TD7r©o 'ir!^^ TTEgi ov di 'TTu^'iuutT- cum Pygmak dicuntur. Non enim id 



(\x) Adrian. Spgell] de Corporis Numani fabrica, lib. i. cap. 7. p. in. 15. (w) AriftotehHiJl.Amntal' 

 lib. 8. cap. 12.. 



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