The Histories · 4.194

Next to these are the Gyzantes, among whom honey is made in great quantity by bees, but in much greater quantity still it is said to be made by men, who work at it as a trade. However that may be, these all smear themselves over with red ochre and eat monkeys, which are produced in very great numbers upon their mountains.

Herodotus of Halicarnassus · trans. G. C. Macaulay, 1890
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