Kitap 7
3.3
Posidonius relates that the Mysians religiously abstain from eating any thing that had life, and consequently, from cattle; but that they lived in a quiet way on honey, milk, and cheese; wherefore they are considered a religious people, and called Capnobatae.A note in the French translation suggests that Capnobatae has some connexion with the practice of intoxication by inhaling smoke, and of using the vapour of linseed, burned upon red-hot stones, as a bath. See Herodot. book i. chap. 202; book iv. chap. 75. He adds, that there are amongst the Thracians some who live without wives, and who are known by the name of Ctistae. These are considered sacred and worthy of honour, and live in great freedom. [He pretends] that the poet comprehends the whole of these people when he says, and where abide, On milk sustain’d, and blest with length of days, The Hippemolgi, justest of mankind.And the illustrious Hippemolgi, milk-nourished, simple in living and most just men. Iliad xiii. 5.Iliad xiii. 5. These he designates as without life, more particularly on account of their living without wives, considering their solitary state as but a half life; in the same way as he likewise designates the house of Protesilaus imperfect, on account of the bereavement of his widow; in the same manner he applies to the Mysians the epithet of close-fighting, on account of their being invincible, like good warriors. [Finally, Posidonius pretends] that in the thirteenthδεκάτῳ text: but there is no doubt it should be the thirteenth. book of the Iliad we ought to substitute for the close-fighting Mysians, [the close-fighting Moesi.]
