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NULOI

Greek Name

Νυλοι Νουλοι

Transliteration

Nuloi, Nouloi

Latin Spelling

Nuli

Translation

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Back-Foot from the Nuremburg Chronicle (1493)
Back-Foot from the Nuremburg Chronicle (1493)

THE NULOI (Nuli) were a tribe of Indian men with backward-facing, eight-toed feet.

The original Greek spelling of their name--Pliny was quoting the Greek writer Megasthenes--would have been Nuloi or Nouloi.

CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES

Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7. 23 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) :
"Megasthenes [Greek historian C4th B.C.] states that on the [Indian] mountain named Nulus there are people with their feet turned backwards and with eight toes on each foot."

SOURCES

ROMAN

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