The Cynocephali of the Ancients, 4.3 



ex la6fe potufiuantur. Horum inter Animantes rationis expertes non feme- 

 re mentjonem feci^ artkulato enim^ difcretoqne^ humn.no Sermone non u~ 

 tuntnr. 



But 'twas for want of Education, it may be, and by their living wild 

 in the Woods, they loft their Learning and their Speech ; for the M- 

 gyptians in the time of the Ptolomks took more care of them ; and as the 

 fame lElian relates, they taught them Letters, and to Dance, and to play 

 upon Mufick : Nor were they ungrateful to their Mafters 5 for they 

 beg'd a great deal of Money, which they carefully put up into a Bag, to 

 reward them for the pains they had taken with them. For thus , faith 

 (e) JElian, as Gefner tranflates him , Antmdta Difdplzn£ idonea h^c ejfe 

 percept. Regnantibus Ptolomeis Qinocephalos JEgyptij literas , d^ faltare^ 

 & pulfare Citharam docebant. Turn vero umifquij^iam Cynocephalorum mer- 

 cedem ^ Domini nomine fie fciti tanquam peritus aliqtm Mendicus exi- 

 gebat. Et id quod dabatur in Marfupinm , quod ferebat, appenjum, con- 

 gerebat. 



I could not but take the more notice of this palTage in JElian, becaufe 

 the Cynocephali are always reprefented to be of a fierce and untraftable 

 Nature 5 which feems their particular Charader : For faith Arijiotle, as I 

 have quoted him already (fX Ka) of Kituosd^ct^oi Si tUu ofWlw e^act /ico^flw 

 toTt; •m^icoigy 'TJkhu /tt&i(^oi'S? r' ^m, itji^v^n^i, iy to. ir^awTni I^OfTi? kh- 



i^u^jnpa^. i. e. The Cynocephali are of the fame fiape with Monkeys, bttp 

 they are bigger andjironger, and they have a Face more lik§ a Do£s, and are 

 of a fiercer Nature.^ and have Teeth more lik^ a Dog's ^ andftronger. And 

 fo (gyPliny, Efferacior Cynocephalk Naturaficut Satyrif : And (/j) SolinuSy 

 Cynocephali & ipfi funt S numerofimiarum, in JEthiopia parte fiequentijfimi i 

 molenti adfaltum, feri morfu., nunquam ita manfueti^ ut non fint magis ra- 

 hidi. And ( z ) Diodoruf Siculus defcribes them after the fame manner : 

 Of ^' ovo/uzi^of/Avoi )ujvoid(pa.?\.oi To<? fj^Av aufxciaiv dv^poo7m<; ^imSiai TrapifM- 

 (pip&i? ela}, TK?.; 1^ <pcieva,T<; fjuuy/Lii<; dvQpoD'mvai tt^Vsj'^)" d-y^MTula Si mJuTzt -nz. 

 XJHoa-, iij TTVcAlKSic, dm^zosSjlcL ^j.^gdS'ia.^ rluC ^OTQ t^I" i^pvocv •7r^(m-^iv cfjugn- 

 ^TiQgiv eVw "ntic, <5^ 3»Aeia(5 i^ooTttlov auju.'^ct.lv^, 70 rlu) iMtQc/iv o/ionx; tS ow- 

 iuuxfl@^ tpip&iv aTmvlcc -r }^pmv. i. e. ^d Cynocephali (a Canino Capite) di~ 

 CHntur, Corporis aj^eSium Homimtm deformium infiar habent, quorum vocem 

 mujjitatione tantum exprimunt. Apprimh ferox eji hoc Animal, nee ul/o ci- 

 curationem paUo admittit, & vultum afuperciliis aujierioribm prafert. Sin- 

 gulare quiddam fsmeUk accidit 5 quod vulvamperpetuo extra Corpus proJeSam 

 habent. And Agatharcides in (k) Photim gives juft the fame defcription 

 of them : "O Si }(.iujoxAipai,?\.@y, (faith he} to fjiAv mfMx, dv^poa-na ^OTiS'a? •vssrs- 



(e; Mlian.Hifl, de Anim. lib. 6. cap. lo. p. 331, (f ) Vid.fag.^.fy 7. of the Anatomy, _ (h) Plinij 

 Jlifl. Nat. lib. 8. cap.54. p. 243, (h) Solini Polyhilior. cap. 27. p. m. 39. ( i ) Diodari Skuli Bi- 

 Miotb.Hiflor.M, 3. p.m. i58. (k) Phdj BihMh^Csip, 38. Cod. 250. p.m. 13^4. 



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