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West of the Triton river and next to the Aseans begins the country of Libyans who cultivate the soil and possess houses; they are called Maxyes; they wear their hair long on the right side of their heads and shave the left, and they paint their bodies with vermilion.
West of the Triton river and next to the Aseans begins the country of Libyans who cultivate the soil and possess houses; they are called Maxyes; they wear their hair long on the right side of their heads and shave the left, and they paint their bodies with vermilion.
[2] These claim descent from the men who came from
+Troy [26.2833,39.9167] (Perseus) Troy. Their country, and the rest of the western part of
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, is much fuller of wild beasts and more wooded than the country of the nomads.
[3] For the eastern region of
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya, which the nomads inhabit, is low-lying and sandy as far as the
Triton river; but the land west of this, where the farmers live, is exceedingly mountainous and wooded and full of wild beasts.
[4] In that country are the huge snakes and the lions, and the elephants and bears and asps, the horned asses, the dog-headed and the headless men that have their eyes in their chests, as the
Libyans say, and the wild men and women, besides many other creatures not fabulous.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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