STROUTHOPODES
Greek Name
Στρουθοπους
Στρουθοποδες
Transliteration
Strouthopous
Strouthopodes
English Spelling
Struthopod
Struthopodes
Translation
Sparrow-Foots
(strouthos, pous)
THE STROUTHOPODES (Struthopodes) were a tribe of giant-footed Indian men whose womenfolk had tiny, sparrow-like feet, hence the name "sparrow-foots."
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7. 25 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) :
"Eudoxus [of Cnidus, Greek writer C2nd B.C.] says that in the south of India men have feet eighteen inches long and the women such small feet that they are called Struthopodes (Sparrow-feet)."
SOURCES
ROMAN
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History - Latin Encyclopedia C1st A.D.
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