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Sciapodes

Sciapodes · m

a fabulous people in Libya

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Where it lives

Ad Nationes 1 · 0.67/10k
Apologeticum 1 · 0.5/10k

What it meant

Sciāpŏdes — Lewis & Short

Sciāpŏdes (Scĭŏpŏdes), um, m., = *skia/poses,

I a fabulous people in Libya, with monstrously large soles to their feet, which they were said to turn up and use as umbrellas, Plin. 7, 2, 2, § 23; Tert. Apol. 8; Aug. Civ. Dei, 16, 8.

In the wild

Sciapodes Tertullian, Apologeticum 8.5
Sciapodes Tertullian, Ad Nationes 1.8

Where it came from

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