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[11] Above this nation is situated a small tribe the Struthophagi1 (or Bird-eaters), in whose country are birds of the size of deer, which are unable to fly, but run with the swiftness of the ostrich. Some hunt them with bows and arrows, others covered with the skins of birds. They hide the right hand in the neck of the skin, and move it as the birds move their necks. With the left hand they scatter grain from a bag suspended to the side; they thus entice the birds, till they drive them into pits, where the hunters despatch them with cudgels. The skins are used both as clothes and as coverings for beds. The Ethiopians called Simi are at war with these people, and use as weapons the horns of antelopes.
1 Agatharchides, as quoted by Diodorus Sic. iii. 27, says expressly that this bird is the ostrich. May it be the cassowary?
The Geography of Strabo. Literally translated, with notes, in three volumes. London. George Bell & Sons. 1903.
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- LSJ, Στρουθοφάγοι
- LSJ, ξυ^λο-κόπος
- LSJ, πετάομαι
- LSJ, στρουθο-κάμηλος
- LSJ, τρα^χηλ-ιαῖος
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