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speaks in Atheneus, and which he calls Tragelaphos % it
represented a head , half goat, half ssag. M! Klein is mi-
staken in supposmg that this Vase represented the Mufton,
an animal known in natural History, and which partakes
both of the ssag, and os :Le goat {b\
Upon the borders of the Vase, forming the neck of
the two animals , is the only monument of Antiquity,
which represents in painting , the battle of the Pigmies
and the storks. It is unfortunate, that the Painter shou'd
not have added some sign, that coud help us to discover
in what country was the field of battle . The Ancients
seeing the storks in great number pass in the winter into
India , and into ^Ethiopia, concluded that they went there
in search of their enemies the Pigmies Homer speaks of
the evils which they caused, but does not point out their
home {c\ Granger in his voyage (ays, that in winter upper
Egypt is full of storks. Aristotle assures us, that it was
there that these birds fought with the little men*, he gives
them little horses to ride on, and makes them live in ca-
verns {d). Basileus on the contrary places the little men in
India (t). Pliny is of the same opinion, he adds, that the
Pigmies are armed with arrows , he makes them go to
battle mounted on Rams , in the spring he makes them
come down from the mountains towards the eastern sea :
there during three months they make war upon their
enemies , break their eggs , carry off their young, and
make use of every means to prevent the propagation of
thespecies-, and that aster having sor along time threatened
their desinition, they at length compleated it(f). Megasthe-
nes, cited by Strabo agrees with Pliny with respest to the
country
(a) L. XL C. XIV.
(b) Note de Monfieur Le Febre de Ville bmne
sur le pajfagc cs Alxis dans la iraduciion francoife d'A-
thenee .
(c) L. III. v. 3. & feqq.
(d) I. Fill. C. XV.
(e) Aiken. L IX. C. X.
(f) I. VI. and VII. C. II.
speaks in Atheneus, and which he calls Tragelaphos % it
represented a head , half goat, half ssag. M! Klein is mi-
staken in supposmg that this Vase represented the Mufton,
an animal known in natural History, and which partakes
both of the ssag, and os :Le goat {b\
Upon the borders of the Vase, forming the neck of
the two animals , is the only monument of Antiquity,
which represents in painting , the battle of the Pigmies
and the storks. It is unfortunate, that the Painter shou'd
not have added some sign, that coud help us to discover
in what country was the field of battle . The Ancients
seeing the storks in great number pass in the winter into
India , and into ^Ethiopia, concluded that they went there
in search of their enemies the Pigmies Homer speaks of
the evils which they caused, but does not point out their
home {c\ Granger in his voyage (ays, that in winter upper
Egypt is full of storks. Aristotle assures us, that it was
there that these birds fought with the little men*, he gives
them little horses to ride on, and makes them live in ca-
verns {d). Basileus on the contrary places the little men in
India (t). Pliny is of the same opinion, he adds, that the
Pigmies are armed with arrows , he makes them go to
battle mounted on Rams , in the spring he makes them
come down from the mountains towards the eastern sea :
there during three months they make war upon their
enemies , break their eggs , carry off their young, and
make use of every means to prevent the propagation of
thespecies-, and that aster having sor along time threatened
their desinition, they at length compleated it(f). Megasthe-
nes, cited by Strabo agrees with Pliny with respest to the
country
(a) L. XL C. XIV.
(b) Note de Monfieur Le Febre de Ville bmne
sur le pajfagc cs Alxis dans la iraduciion francoife d'A-
thenee .
(c) L. III. v. 3. & feqq.
(d) I. Fill. C. XV.
(e) Aiken. L IX. C. X.
(f) I. VI. and VII. C. II.