# Naturalis Historia 5.45

Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, Book 5. Latin.

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45] Atlantes degeneres sunt humani ritus, si credimus. nam neque nominum ullorum inter ipsos appellatio est et solem orientem occidentemque dira inprecatione contuentur ut exitialem ipsis agrisque, neque in somno visunt qualia reliqui mortales. Trogodytae specus excavant; hae illis domus, victus serpentium carnes, stridorque, non vox: adeo sermonis commercio carent. Garamantes matrimoniorum exortes passim cum feminis degunt. Augliae inferos tantum colunt. Gamphasantes, nudi proeliorumque expertes, nulli externo congregantur.

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