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ANDROPHAGI (Gr. for " man-eaters ")

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Originally appearing in Volume V01, Page 976 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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ANDROPHAGI (Gr. for "
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man-eaters ")  , an
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ancient nation of cannibals
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north of
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Scythia (
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Herodotus iv . 18, ro6), probably in the forests between the upper
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waters of the
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Dnieper and
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Don . They were most likely Finns (Samoyed has the same meaning) and perhaps the ancestors of the
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Mordvinians (q.v.) .

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