in the Ancient Geography, a people of Ethiopia, said to have lived in caves under ground. Pomponius Mela gives a strange account of the Troglodytes: he says, they did not so properly speak as trick; and that they lived on serpents.

TROGUS POMPÆUS, a Latin universal historian to the time of Augustus Cæsar, of whom we have only an abridgement by Justin, flourished about 41 B.C.