De Pygmaei nominibus & Etymologia.  The third Chapter, Duplex esse Pygmaeorum Genus; & primum Genus aliquando dari.  He means Dwarfs, that are no Pygmies at all.  The fourth Chapter is, Alterum Genus, nempe Gentem Pygmaeorum esse, aut saltem aliquando fuisse Autoritatibus Humanis, fide tamen dignorum asseritur.  ’Tis as I find it printed; and no doubt an Error in the printing.  The Authorities he gives, are, Homer, Ctesias, Aristotle, Philostratus, Pliny, Juvenal, Oppian, Baptista Mantuan, St. Austin and his Scholiast.  Ludovic.  Vives, Jo.  Laurentius Anania, Joh.  Cassanius, Joh.  Talentonius, Gellius, Pomp.  Mela, and Olaus Magnus.  I have taken notice of most of them already, as I shall of St. Austin and Ludovicus Vives by and by. Jo.  Laurentius Anania[B] ex Mercatorum relatione tradit (saith Bartholine) eos (sc.  Pygmaeos) in Septentrionali Thraciae Parte reperiri, (quae Scythiae est proxima) atque ibi cum Gruibus pugnare.  And Joh.  Cassanius[C] (as he is here quoted) saith, De Pygmaeis fabulosa quidem esse omnia, quae de iis narrari solent, aliquando existimavi.  Verum cum videam non unum vel alterum, sed complures Classicos & probatos Autores de his Homunculis multa in eandem fere Sententiam tradidisse; eo adducor ut Pygmaeos fuisse inficiari non ausim. He next brings in Jo.  Talentonius, to whom he is so much beholden, and quotes his Opinion, which is full and home, Constare arbitror (saith Talentonius)[D] debere concedi, Pygmaeos non solum olim fuisse, sed nunc etiam esse, & homines esse, nec parvitatem illis impedimenta esse quo minus sint & homines sint. But were there such Men Pygmies now in being, no doubt but we must have heard of them; some or other of our Saylors, in their Voyages, would have lighted on them.  Tho’ Aristotle is here quoted, yet he does not make them Men; So neither does Anania:  And I must own, tho’ Talentonius be of this Opinion, yet he takes notice of the faulty Translation of this Text of Aristotle by Gaza:  and tho’ the parvity or lowness of Stature, be no Impediment, because we have frequently seen such Dwarf-Men, yet we did never see a Nation of them:  For then there would be no need of that Talmudical Precept which Job.  Ludolphus[E] mentions, Nanus ne ducat Nanam, ne forte oriatur ex iis Digitalis (in Bechor. fol. 45).

[Footnote A:  Jo.  Talentionij.  Variar. & Recondit.  Rerum.  Thesaurus. lib. 3. cap. 21.]

[Footnote B:  Joh.  Laurent.  Anania prope finem tractatus primi suae Geograph.]

[Footnote C:  Joh.  Cassanius libello de Gygantibus, p. 73.]

[Footnote D:  Jo.  Talentonius Variar. & recondit.  Rerum Thesaurus, lib. 3. cap. 21. p.m. 515.]

[Footnote E:  Job Ludolphi Comment. in Historiam AEthiopic. p.m. 71.]