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But in the nomads' country there are none of these; but there are others, white-rumped antelopes, gazelles, hartebeest, asses, not the horned asses, but those that are called “undrinking” (for indeed they never drink), the oryx, whose horns are made the horns of the lyre (this is a beast the size of a bull),
But in the nomads' country there are none of these; but there are others, white-rumped antelopes, gazelles, hartebeest, asses, not the horned asses, but those that are called “undrinking” (for indeed they never drink), the oryx, whose horns are made the horns of the lyre (this is a beast the size of a bull),
[2] foxes, hyenas, porcupines, wild rams, the dictys, jackals, panthers, the borys,
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land crocodiles sixty inches long, very like lizards, and ostriches and little one-horned serpents; all these beasts besides those that are elsewhere too, except deer and wild boar; of these two kinds there are none at all in
Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya.
[3] There are in this country three kinds of mice, the two-footed,
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the “zegeries” (this is a
Libyan word, meaning in our language “hills”), and the bristly-haired, as they are called. There are also weasels found in the silphium, very like to the weasels of
Tartessus. So many are the wild creatures of the nomads' country, as far as by our utmost enquiry we have been able to learn.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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