TheTYG MIES of the Ancients. 1 5 



oj fc^htJcScTiv' 8 yz^ '<Qi tSto ^^i^-, fabtda eB , yeti? cer/^ , genm turn ho- 

 a/9i' £?■( ^7a r^ dA^GsKxr. Tiv@yj^fM- ntinuni^ turn etiam Eqitorttm priji/lum 

 xpjv f/^v, ooaxn^ Ae;j/47(X/, itj ccutoi iy et (^nt dicHiir) ef?, deguntque in Caver- 

 "I'STTiOf T^ocyM ^utouj ^ ^<jl TDv /S/oy. »;y', w-^/is^e Nomen Troglodyte a fnb- 



eundk Cavernk acccpere. 



In EngliOi 'tis thus : ' At the Autumnal JEquinox they go out of Pontui 

 ' and the cold Countreys to avoid the Winter that is coming on. At the 

 * Vernal Mqmnox they pafs from hot Countreys into cold ones/or fear of 

 " the enfuing Heat \ fome making their Migrations from nearer places 5 

 ' others from the moft remote (as I'may fay) as the Cranes do : for they 

 ' come out oiScythia to the Lakes above7Eg/p^,whence the Ni/e do's- flow. 

 ' This is the place, v/hereabout the pygmies dwell : For this is no Fahle^ 

 'butaTn^f^. Both they and the Horfes, as 'tis faid, are^a Xmall kind. 

 ' They a« Troglodytes^ or live in Caves. 



' We may here obferve hovir pofitive th^. PMofopkr\Sy that there are 

 Pygmies ; he tells us where they- dwell,and that 'tis no Fable,buta Truth. 

 But Theodorus Gaza has been unjufl: in tranflating him, by folding in,^w 

 in loco pHgnare cum Pygmceis dicuntur ^whsK^is there is nothing in the Text 

 that warrants it : As likewife, where he exprefies the little Stature of the 

 Pygmies and the Horfes, there Gaza has rendered it, Sed certe Genus turn 

 Hominufn^ turn etiam Equorumptif Hum. ^r//?(?//e only faith, Tiv@^ fJM^v 

 f/Av, wamo ^.lji1cif,.}t). OLiTxil, 39 01 "■zffiroi. He neither makes his Pygmies Men^ 

 nor faith any thing of their fighting the Cranes ; tho' here he had a fair 

 occafion, difcourfing of the Migration of the Cr^«w out of Scythia to th,e 

 Lakes above ^^^p^,where he tells us the Pygmies are. Cardan (x) there- 

 fore muft certainly be out in his guefs, that Ariftotle only afferted the 

 Pygmies out of Complement to his Friend Homer 5 for furely then he 

 would not have forgot their fight with the Cranes , upon which occafion 

 only Homer mentions them (*). I (hould rather think that Ariflotk^ be- 

 ing fenfible of the many Fables that had been raifed on this occafion, 

 ftudioufly avoided the mentioning this fight, that he might not give • 

 countenance to the Extravagant Relations that had been made of it 



But I wonder that neither Cafatthon nor Duvall in their Editions oF 

 Arijiotles Works, (hould have taken notice of thefe Miftakes of Gaza, 

 and correfted them. And Gefner^ and Aldrovandus, and feveral other 

 Learned Men, in quoting this place of Ariftotle , do make ufe of this 

 faulty Tranflation, which muft neceHarily lead them into Miftakes, 

 Sam. Bocharttfs (y) tho' he gives Ariftotle's Text in Greek, and adds a new 



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(x) Cardan de Rerum varktate, lib. 8. cap. 40. p. m. 153. C*-) Ap-paret ergo ( faith Cardan ) P:_ 

 Wdorum Hiftorlatn ejfe fabulofani, qmdfy Strabo/enhV, f(y noftr dated, cum omnia mmcferme orbii niiyabilia 

 innotuermt , declarat. Sed quod tantitm Fbilofophum decepit, fuit Homeri Aulhrltm non apud ilfum kv'yi, 

 (y) Bocbarti Hierozpk. S, de Ammalib. S. Script, part. Fofterior. lib. i. cap. u. p.m. j6, 



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