4-2 A Philological Bjfay concerning 



' juft, and the longeft lived of any Men, for they live an Hundred and 

 ' feventy, and fome of them Two hundred years. 



Had not Oejias made fuch a Solemn Afleveration of the Truth of all 

 that he had wrote,that Apology that Strabo(b) makes for the Foets^xxn^t 

 excufe him, $a/i'e^ ^ C^ith Strabo) iv^vi on fjuuSrui Tnto^-^sh-iKHaiv ittovni' 



i-e. Statim enim apparet eos fabulas admifcere^ non ob verorum igmratio- 

 mm^ fed dzhBationis catifa^ monflra €^ alia, qux ejje non pojjknt , fingentes. 

 For our Hijiorian had as good a Talent at Fiction as any of the Poets. 

 And tho' Mfchylui^ as the fame Strabo there tells us , firft invented the 

 Story of the CynocephaU^ or Camdpites , as iikewife the FeBorocuUtl 

 and the Umculi^ as Hejtod and Homer did that of the Pygwks ; yet I 

 can't but think he hath as far out-done the Original in what he relates 

 of the Cjnocephali, as he did in the Account he gives of the Pygmks. 



Thefe Cynocephali by (c) JEl/an are called avdpceiroi mjvoiv^mo'iTOi, and he 

 gives this Relation of them, as I find him tranllated by Conrad. Gefner, 

 who is more faithful in rendering him than Pet. Gi/Iius, Ultra Oafm M- 

 gypt?, folitudo maxima ad feptem d/eriem iter extenditur. Earn excipit Re- 

 gio quam Cynoprofopi Homines incolnnt^ in via i^thioplam verfus, Vivunt 

 illi Caprariim ©" Btibalidtim venatit. AJpe5fm iis niger^ Caput & Dentes 

 Cank. ^tod Animal^ quum referant^ non abfurda eorum (quamquam Ho- 

 minum) hoc in loco exijtimanda eji mentio. Nam & Sermonis uftt carent^ 

 & actito cjHodam firidorefonant. Barbam injra fitpraqiie os germt , Draco- 

 num qitadam Jimilitudine. Manm eorum validk ^ acutijjimis unguibuf 

 armantnr. Corpus omne hirfntum eU , hoc etiam injiar Canum. Sunt an- 

 tem pernicijjimi, <& aquas Regionis fzorunt ; atque earn ob caufam^ difflciles 

 captH. 



Now tho* JEl/an calls them here Men, yet where he defcribes them 

 before, even out of Oe//r7^, he plainly tells us they are not Me«r, but 

 only Brutes^ becaufe they cannot fpeak, but only bark. I will give you 

 (d) Gefner's Tranflation of this Paflage : In eodem Indi£ traUu, ubi Can- 

 thari ("f") jofn diSfi, Cynocephali etiam reperiuntur : quibus a facie ^ Car- 

 park j^ecie nomen inditnm^ cetera fere hum ana habent : €^ vejiiti pellibiff 

 fcrarum ingrediuntur. Jujiifunt^ Hominum nemini molefti aut injurij^non 

 Sermone fed ululaiufonant. Indorum tamen linguam intelligunt. Venatio- 

 ne Animalium ferortim vivunt^ qttie ut funt celerrimt , facile confecuti inte- 

 rimunt, & fiujiatim divifa adfolem ajfunt. Caprm etiam & eves alnnt, ut 



(h) Strabo Oeogi-afh.Yih.i.^.m.ii^. (c) Milan. Hifl.de Animal.\\h. lo. a-p.i'i. ^.m.6oi. {d) M- 

 liim.Hifl.de Animal.lih. 4.cap. 40. p. rn. 239. ({) Thefe dntharl are that fort of ScatiMw we 

 call a Lady-Cow, and I have forrnerly given a Figure of, in Phihfoph.Tratifa^. N. 176. p. 1202. from 

 the Worm or Chryjalu of wliich , come the Coch'meel^ for dying Scarlet, of which there is a good 

 account here in j^lian out of Cteftac, 



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