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LAESTRYGONES

Volume 6 · 48 words · 1778 Edition

(anc. geog.), an ancient people dwelling in Sicily, together with the Cyclopes; about whose origin and fate Thucydides declares, he has nothing to say. They were also a people of Italy about Formia, of Scythian original, and a race of cannibals, (Pliny); resembling giants rather than men, (Homer).