living in the woods
living in the woods, name of a sect of Indian devotees, being a literal translation of the Skt. Vāna-prastha, one who retired to the forest, being in the third stage of life, Megasth. ap. Str. 15.1.60.
The corpus record
ὑλό-βῐος
ulobios · ὁ
living in the woods
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