GALACTOPHAGI, and GALACTOPOTÆ, in antiquity, persons who lived wholly on milk, without corn or the use of any other food. The words are compounded of γαλα, γαλαῖον, milk; ἔσθιν, to eat; and πίνω, to drink. I drink.
Certain nations in Scythia Asiatica, as the Getæ, Nomades, &c. are famous, in ancient history, in quality of galactophagi, or milk-eaters. Homer makes their elege, Iliad, lib. iii.
Ptolemy, in his geography, places the Galactophagi between the Rhipæan mountains on one side, and the Hircanian sea on the other.