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the model of the Libyan women; for except that the dress of the Libyanwomen is of leather, and the tassels which hang from their /aigis/ arenot formed of serpents but of leather thongs, in all other respectsAthene is dressed like them. Moreover the name too declares that thedress of the figures of Pallas has come from Libya, for the Libyanwomen wear over their other garments bare goat-skins (/aigeas/) withtasselled fringes and coloured over with red madder, and from the nameof these goat-skins the Hellenes formed the name /aigis/. I think alsothat in these regions first arose the practice of crying aloud duringthe performance of sacred rites, for the Libyan women do this verywell.[170] The Hellenes learnt from the Libyans also the yokingtogether of four horses. 190. The nomads bury those who die just inthe same manner as the Hellenes, except only the Nasamonians: thesebury bodies in a sitting posture, taking care at the moment when theman expires to place him sitting and not to let him die lying down onhis back. They have dwellings composed of the stems of asphodelentwined with rushes, and so made that they can be carried about. Suchare the customs followed by these tribes.191. On the West of the river Triton next after the Auseans comeLibyans who are tillers of the soil, and whose custom it is to possessfixed habitations; and they are called Maxyans. They grow their hairlong on the right side of their heads and cut it short upon the left,and smear their bodies over with red ochre. These say that they are ofthe men who came from Troy.This country and the rest of Libya which is towards the West is bothmuch more frequented by wild beasts and much more thickly wooded thanthe country of the nomads: for whereas the part of Libya which issituated towards the East, where the nomads dwell, is low-lying andsandy up to the river Triton, that which succeeds it towards the West,the country of those who till the soil, is exceedingly mountainous andthickly-wooded and full of wild beasts: for in the land of these arefound both the monstrous serpent and the lion and the elephant, andbears and venomous snakes and horned asses, besides the dog-headedmen, and the headless men with their eyes set in their breasts (atleast so say the Libyans about them), and the wild men and wild women,and a great multitude of other beasts which are not fabulous likethese.[171] 192. In the land of the nomads however there exist none ofthese, but other animals as follows:--white-rump antelopes, gazelles,buffaloes, asses, not the horned kind but others which go withoutwater (for in fact these never drink), oryes,[172] whose horns aremade into the sides of the Phenician lyre (this animal is in sizeabout equal to an ox), small foxes, hyenas, porcupines, wild rams,wolves,[173] jackals, panthers, boryes, land-crocodiles about threecubits in length and very much resembling lizards, ostriches, and