Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), ICHTHYO´PHAGI

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Eth. ICHTHYO´PHAGI (Eth. Ἰχθυοφάγοι, Diod. 3.15, seq.; Hdt. 3.19; Paus. 1.33.4; Plin. Nat. 6.30. s. 32), were one of the numerous tribes dwelling on each shore of the Red Sea which derived their appellation from the principal article of their diet. Fish-eaters, however, were not confined to this region: in the present day, savages, whose only diet is fish cast ashore and cooked in the sun, are found on the coasts of New Holland. The Aethiopian Ichthyophagi, who appear to have been the most numerous of these [p. 2.12]tribes, dwelt to the southward of the Regio Troglo-dytica. Of these, and other more inland races, concerning whose strange forms and modes of life curious tales are related by the Greek and Roman writers, a further account is given under TROGLODYTES.

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Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.

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William Smith, LLD, Ed.