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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 45 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUTOCHTHONES (Gr. drabs, and xO(:ov, See also:earth, i.e. See also:people sprung from earth itself; See also:Lat. terrigenae; see also under See also:ABORIGINES)  , the See also:original inhabitants of a See also:country as opposed to settlers, and those of their descendants who kept themselves See also:free from an admixture of See also:foreign peoples . The practice in See also:ancient See also:Greece of describing legendary heroes and men of ancient lineage as " earthborn " greatly strengthened the See also:doctrine of autochthony; for instance, the Athenians wore See also:golden grasshoppers in their See also:hair in token that they were See also:born from the See also:soil and had always lived in See also:Attica (See also:Thucydides i . 6; See also:Plato, Menexenus, 245) . In See also:Thebes, the See also:race of Sparti were believed to have sprung from a See also:field sown with dragons' See also:teeth . The Phrygian See also:Corybantes had been forced out of the See also:hill-See also:side like trees by See also:Rhea, the See also:great See also:mother, and hence were called SevSpodweis . It is clear from See also:Aeschylus (See also:Prometheus, 447) that See also:primitive men were supposed to have at first lived like animals in caves and See also:woods, till by the help of the gods and heroes they were raised to a See also:stage of See also:civilization .

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