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AGRIOPHAGI

Volume 2 · 56 words · 1860 Edition

(ἀγριός, and φάγος), in Antiquity, a name given to those who fed on wild beasts. The name is given, by ancient writers, to certain people, real or fabulous, said to have fed altogether on lions or panthers. Pliny and Solinus speak of Agriophagi in Ethiopia, and Ptolemy of others in India on this side the Ganges.