TROGLODITES. in the ancient geography, a people of Ethiopia, said to have lived in caves under ground. Pomponius Mela gives a strange account of the Troglodites: he says, they did not so properly speak as shek; and that they lived on serpents. They are ranked by Linnæus with mankind; (see Homo.)
But we have given their character and natural history under SIMIA, among their proper companions. See that article.