...ned all their store, their greedy nature soon will pine with death— it will not bear such famine but depart and, when deserted, will desert the place. “'Tis said that Hyperboreans of Pallene can cover all their bodies with light plumes by plunging nine times in Minerva's marsh. But I cannot believe another tale: that Scythian women get a like result by having poison sprinkled on the...