Pygmies - in ancient sources @ attalus.org

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Pygmies - a race of very small people in Africa
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Aelian:NA_15.29 As to the race of Pygmies I have heard that they are gove
Athen_9.393 that there was among the Pygmies a very well known woman
Callim:Aetia_1 in the blood of the Pygmies, {fly far} from Egypt to
Lucill_11.265 are not like the Pygmies, who made war on cranes, so the
Plin:HN_4.44 abode of the race of Pigmies: their name in the local
Plin:HN_5.109 record that a race of Pygmies formerly lived in it. There
Plin:HN_6.70 to be a race of Pygmies. Artemidorus gives the distance from
Plin:HN_6.188 actually reported a race of Pygmies living among the marshes in
Plin:HN_7.26 of the Three-span men and Pygmies, who do not exceed three
Plin:HN_7.27 [27] Aristotle says that the Pygmies live in caves, but in

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