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12850	Tyson, Edward	A Philological Essay Concerning the Pygmies of the Ancients			.txt	text/plain	38711	2865	80	Ctesias[A] tells us that "Middle India has black men, who are called (animals) in shape and appearance like men, but little of stature, and of not _Homer_ mean only _Pygmies_ or _Apes_ like _Men_. _Cranes_ and _Apes_, which from their Stature he calls _Pygmies_, and from _Aristotle_,[A] 'tis true, tells us, [Greek: Holos de ta men agria _Pygmies_ were real _Apes_ like _Men_; but those of _Ctesias_ were neither He neither makes his _Pygmies Men_, nor saith any thing of their place where the_ Pygmies _are; this is no fable,_ saith Aristotle, as 'tis _Pygmies_, because these _Historians_ had made them a Puny Race of _Men_, But this Fable of _Men Pygmies_ has not only obtained amongst the _Greeks_ But to return to our _Pygmies_; tho' most of the great and learned Men these _Pygmies_ were really a Race of _little Men_. Error of the Age, in believing the _Pygmies_ to be a sort of _little Men_,	./cache/12850.txt	./txt/12850.txt