Histories, 4.194

Herodotus  translated by G. C. Macaulay

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194Next to these are the Gyzantes,[176] among whom honey is made in great quantity by bees, but in much greater quantity still it is said to be made by men, who work at it as a trade. However that may be, these all smear themselves over with red ochre and eat monkeys, which are produced in very great numbers upon their mountains.

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