[Footnote A:  Job Ludolphus Comment, in Historiam suam AEthiopic. p. 73.]

’Tis true, if what Juvenal only in ridicule mentions, was to be admitted as a thing really done, that the Cranes could fly away with a Pygmie, as our Kites can with a Chicken, there might be some pretence for Ludovicus’s Condor or Cunctor:  For he mentions afterwards[A] out of P.  Joh. dos Santos the Portuguese, that ’twas observed that one of these Condors once flew away with an Ape, Chain, Clog and all, about ten or twelve pounds weight, which he carried to a neighbouring Wood, and there devoured him.  And Garcilasso de la Vega[B] relates that they will seize and fly away with a Child ten or twelve years old.  But Juvenal[C] only mentions this in ridicule and merriment, where he saith,

  Adsubitas Thracum volucres, nubemque sonoram
  Pygmaeos parvis currit Bellator in armis: 
  Mox impar hosti, raptusque per aera curvis
  Unguibus a faeva fertur Grue.

[Footnote A:  Job Ludolphus ibid. pag. 164.]

[Footnote B:  Garcilasso de la Vega Royal Comment, of Peru.]

[Footnote C:  Juvenal Satyr. 13 vers. 167.]

Besides, were the Condors to be taken for the Cranes, it would utterly spoil the Pygmaeomachia; for where the Match is so very unequal, ’tis impossible for the Pygmies to make the least shew of a fight. Ludolphus puts as great hardships on them, to fight these Condors, as Vossius did, in making them fight Elephants, but not with equal Success; for Vossius’s Pygmies made great Slaughters of the Elephants; but Ludolphus his Cranes sweep away the Pygmies, as easily as an Owl would a Mouse, and eat them up into the bargain; now I never heard the Cranes were so cruel and barbarous to their Enemies, tho’ there are some Nations in the World that are reported to do so.

Moreover, these Condor’s I find are very rare to be met with; and when they are, they often appear single or but a few.  Now Homer’s, and the Cranes of the Ancients, are always represented in Flocks.  Thus Oppian[A] as I find him translated into Latin Verse: