[3078] Scythia and Æthiopia ought to be transposed here, as the griffons were said to be monsters that guarded the gold in the mountains of Scythia, the Uralian chain, probably.
[3079] Literally, the “goat Pan.” Cuvier thinks that the bird here alluded to actually existed, and identifies it with the napaul, or horned pheasant of Buffon, the penelope satyra of Gmell, a bird of the north of India, and which answers the description here given by Pliny.
[3080] See Ovid, Met. B. v. l. 553.
[3081] A kind of crested lark.
[3082] The Strix scops, probably, of Linn. See the Odyssey, B. v. l. 66.
[3083] Those called Orchia, Didia, Oppia, Cornelia, Antia, and Julia namely.
[3084] Repositoria. See B. xxxiii. c. 49. See also B. ix. c. [13].
[3085] Valerius Maximus, B. ix. c. 1, tells this story of the profligate son of Æsopus.
[3086] B. ix. c. 59.
[3087] “Hominum linguas,” Pliny says; a singularly inappropriate expression, it would appear.