Hesiod wrote that Epaphus, son of Zeus, through his daughters was the ancestor of the "dark Libyans, and high-souled Aethiopians, and the Underground-folk and feeble Pygmies". And it is here, by the way, that they are said to fight with the pygmies and the story is not fabulous, but there is in reality a race of dwarfish men, and the horses are little in proportion, and the men live in caves underground. These birds migrate from the steppes of Scythia to the marshlands south of Egypt where the Nile has its source. When the cranes escape the winter time and the rains unceasingĪnd clamorously wing their way to the streaming Ocean,īringing to the Pygmaian men bloodshed and destruction:Īt daybreak they bring on the baleful battle against them.Īccording to Aristotle in History of Animals, the story is true: The Trojans came on with clamour and shouting, like wildfowl,Īs when the clamour of cranes goes high to the heavens, Now when the men of both sides were set in order by their leaders,
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