L. VIVES.
MOnstrous (a) men] Pliny lib. 7. (b) One eye] Such they say are in India. (c) Pygmees] I do * 1.1 not beleeue that the Pigm•…•…es were but in one place, or that the writers concerning them, differ so as they seeme. Pliny (lib 4.) saith they were in Thrace, neare the towne Gerra∣nia, and called Catizi, and that the Cranes beate them away. For there are great store of Cranes there, wherevpon they are called the Strimonian, of Strymon, a riuer in Thrace. And Gerrania is drawne from the greeke: for 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is, a Crane. The same author reherseth their opinion that said Pygmees dwelt by Endon, a riuer in Caria. Lib. 5. And (lib 6.) hee follow∣eth others, and placeth them in India, amongst the Prasian hilles: as Philostratus doth also. Some there bee (as Pline saith there) that say they are aboue the marishes of Nilus: one of those is Aristotle, who saith they liue in Ethiopia amongst the Troglodytes, in caues▪ and therefore are called Troglodyta: and that their stature, and crane-battells are •…•…ables. Of these Homer sung, placing them in the South, where the Cranes liue in winter, as they doe in Thrace in summer, going and comming with the seasons. Mela puts the Pygmees into the in-most Arabia, little wretches they are saith hee, and fight for their corne against the Cranes.
Some hold their are no such creatures. Arist. Pliny. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 in greeke, is a cubite, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉, saith Eustathius, (Homers interpretor) they had their name. This cubite is halfe a 〈◊〉〈◊〉▪ 〈◊〉〈◊〉 * 1.2 is foure and twenty fingers by their measure. For a foote, is twelue inshes, that is▪ 〈◊〉〈◊〉 fingers and foure hand-breadths. But an hand-bredth is diuers: there is the 〈◊〉〈◊〉 (o•…•… 〈◊〉〈◊〉 wee doe meane) beeing three inshes, the quarter of the foote: and there is the greater, 〈◊〉〈◊〉 twelue fingers, called a spanne: beeing three partes of the foote, that is nine fingers. There are (saith Pliny lib. 7.) vpon those mountaines, the Span-men, as they say, or the Pigmee•…•…▪ * 1.3 beeing not aboue three spannes (that is two foote ¼) high. So saith Gellius also that their highest stature is but two foote ¼. lib. 9. Pliny and Gellius doe both meane, sixe and th•…•…e fingers. Iuuenall to make them the more ridiculous, saith they were not aboue a foote high. (d)] Sciopodae] Or, foote-shadowed: 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 is a shadow. 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉▪ a foote. (e) Checker-worke] M•…•…∣siuum opus. Spartian vseth it, and Pliny. It is (saith Hermolaus Barbarus vpon Plinies * 1.4 sixth booke, and Baptista Egnatius vpon Spartian) wrought with stones of diuers col∣lours, which beeing rightly laied together, are the portraytures of images: as is ordinary to bee seene in the pauementes at Rome and else-where in old workes, for of late it is neg∣lected: Our in-laide workes in our chaires, and tables in Spaine haue some resemblance there∣of. * 1.5 Perottus, saith it is corrruptly called Musaicum, but the true word is Mus•…•…acum, of 〈◊〉〈◊〉, and alledgeth this place of Pliny: Barbarus seemes to bee of his minde also. The •…•…∣gar called it musaicum, because it seemed to bee a worke of great wit and industry. 〈◊〉〈◊〉 Cy∣nocephali] Worde for worde, Dogges-heads. Solinus maketh them a kinde of Apes, •…•…nd possible to bee turned from euer beeing wilde againe. Diodorus accountes th•…•…m wilde * 1.6 beastes. (g) At Hippon] Some had added in the Margent, Diaritum, and Zar•…•…tum. It should bee Diarrhytum. Mela, Strabo, Pliny and Ptolomy speake of two 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in Affrica, (hauing their names from Knights, or horse-men, for so is the Greeke 〈◊〉〈◊〉 in∣terpreted:) the one called Hippon Diarrhytus, neare Carthage, a little on this side, and 〈◊〉〈◊〉 was Augustine Bishoppe: the other called Hippon Regius, beeing farther East, and the 〈◊〉〈◊〉