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Anthropophagi

Anthropophăgi

(Ἀνθρωποφάγοι). A people of Scythia who fed on human flesh. Herodotus (iv. 106) calls them the Androphagi, and states that they lived in a more savage manner than any other nation, having no public distribution of justice nor established laws. He informs us also that they applied themselves to the breeding of cattle, clothed themselves like the Scythians, and spoke a peculiar language.

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