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Hic cenocephali nascuntur
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Hic cenocephali nascuntur means 'here the dog-headed are born', a legend written across East Africa on the map. Greek writers from Herodotus on placed the dog-heads in India, and when later antiquity came to blur India with Ethiopia, they migrated to Africa. The entry probably goes back to the geographer Artemidorus, quoted by Strabo, who set them at the Horn of the South, Cape Guardafui, where the known world and its lists of harbours ended, and who seems to have meant a kind of ape. The spelling cenocephali, however, follows medieval Latin usage, the habit of the age of the copyist.
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