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LAESTRYGONES , a mythical race of giants and cannibals. According to the Odyssey (x. 8o) they dwelt in the farthest north, where the nights were so short that the shepherd who was driving
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long nightless summer in the Arctic regions, which perhaps reached the Greeks through the merchants who fetched amber from the Baltic coasts. Odysseus in his wanderings arrived at the coast
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The later Greeks placed the country of the Laestrygones in Sicily, to the south
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Horace (Odes, iii. 16. 34) and other Latin authors speak of them as living in southern Latium, near Formiae, which was supposed to have been founded by Lamus.End of Article: LAESTRYGONES If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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