and Galactopote, in antiquity, persons who lived wholly on milk, without corn or the use of any other food. The words are compounded of \(\gammaαλη\), \(\gammaαλεκτος\), milk; \(\gammaαλεν\), to eat; and \(\tauωρα\), I drink.

Certain nations in Scythia Aethiaca, as the Getæ, Nomades, &c. are famous, in ancient history, in quality of galactophagi, or milk-eaters. Homer makes their clothe, Iliad, lib. iii.

Ptolemy, in his geography, places the Galactophagi between the Riphaean mountains on one side, and the Hyrcanian sea on the other.