Histories

Herodotus

Herodotus. Godley, Alfred Denis, translator. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; William Heinemann, Ltd., 1920-1925 (printing).

foxes, hyenas, porcupines, wild rams, the dictys, jackals, panthers, the borys,[*](The dictys and borys are not identifiable. (But there is a small African deer called the Dik-dik).) land crocodiles sixty inches long, very like lizards, and ostriches and little one-horned serpents; all these beasts besides those that are elsewhere too, except deer and wild boar; of these two kinds there are none at all in Libya [17,25] (nation), AfricaLibya.