AGRIOPHAGI, in antiquity, a name given to those who fed on wild beasts. The word is Greek, compounded of αγριος, wild, savage, and φαγω, I eat. The name is given, by ancient writers, to certain people, real or fabulous, said to have fed altogether on lions and panthers. Pliny and Solinus speak of Agrio-phagi in Ethiopia, and Ptolemy of others in India on this side the Ganges.