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Next to these are the Gyzantes, where much honey is made by bees, and much more yet (so it is said) by craftsmen.1 It is certain that they all paint themselves with vermilion and eat apes, with which their mountains swarm.

1 cp. Hdt. 7.31, where men are said to make honey out of wheat and tamarisk.

Herodotus, with an English translation by A. D. Godley. Cambridge. Harvard University Press. 1920.

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