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Originally appearing in Volume V16, Page 63 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.

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LAESTRYGONES , a mythical See also:

RACE

race of giants and cannibals. According to the Odyssey (x. 8o) they dwelt in the farthest See also:

north, where the nights were so See also:

SHORT, FRANCIS JOB (1857– )

short that the shepherd who was See also:

DRIVING (from " to drive," i.e. generally to propel, force along or in, a word common in various forms to the Teutonic languages)

driving out his See also:

FLOCK

flock met another driving it in. This feature of the See also:

TALE (O.Eng. talu, number, account, story; the word is common to many Teutonic languages; cf. Ger. Zahl, number, Erzahlung, narrative, Du. taal, speech, language)

tale contains some hint of the See also:

long nightless summer in the See also:

ARCTIC (Gr. "ApKroc, the Bear, the northern constellation of Ursa Major)

Arctic regions, which perhaps reached the Greeks through the merchants who fetched See also:

AMBER

amber from the Baltic coasts. See also:

ODYSSEUS (in Latin Ulixes, incorrectly written Ulysses)

Odysseus in his wanderings arrived at the See also:

COAST (from Lat. costa, a rib, side)

coast inhabited by the Laestrygones, and escaped with only one See also:

SHIP

ship, the See also:

REST (O. Eng. rest, reste, bed, cognate with other Teutonic forms, e.g. Ger. Rast, Riiste, rest, and probably Gothic Rasta, league, i.e. resting or stopping place)

rest being sunk by the giants with masses of See also:

rock. Their See also:

CHIEF (from Fr. chef, head, Lat. caput)

chief See also:

CITY (through Fr. cite, from Lat. civitas)

city was Telepylus, founded by a former See also:

king Lamus, their ruler at that See also:

time being Antiphates. This is a purely fanciful name, but Lamus takes us into a religious See also:

WORLD

world where we can trace the origin of the See also:

LEGEND (through the French from the med. Lat. legenda, things to be read, from legere, to read)

legend, and observe the See also:

GOD

god of an older See also:

religion becoming the subject of See also:

FAIRY (Fr. fee, faerie; Prov. facia; Sp. hada; Ital. fata; med. Lat. fatare, to enchant, from Lat. fatum, fate, destiny)

fairy tales (see See also:

LAMIA

LAMIA) in a later See also:

period. The later Greeks placed the See also:

COUNTRY (from the Mid. Eng. contre or contrie, and O. Fr. cuntree; Late Lat. contrata, showing the derivation from contra, opposite, over against, thus the tract of land which fronts the sight, cf. Ger. Gegend, neighbourhood)

country of the Laestrygones in See also:

SICILY (Ital. Sicilia)

Sicily, to the See also:

south of Aetna, near See also:

LEONTINI (mod. Lentini)

Leontini; but See also:

HORACE [QuINTus HORATIUS FLACCUS] (65-8 B.C.)

Horace (Odes, iii. 16. 34) and other Latin authors speak of them as living in See also:

SOUTHERN

southern See also:

LATIUM

Latium, near Formiae, which was supposed to have been founded by Lamus.

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