and GALACTOPOTÆ, in antiquity, persons who lived wholly on milk, without corn or the use of any other food. The words are compounded of γάλα, γαλακτός, milk; φαγειν, to eat; and πονειν of πίω, 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 eloge, Iliad, lib. iii.

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