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A History of Inventions, Discoveries, and Origins, Volume 2 (of 2)

Note 336 — JUGGLERS, ROPE-DANCERS, AUTOMATA, ETC.

William Johnston translation

Iliad, xviii. 373. It deserves to be remarked, that there were also such τρίποδες αὐτόματοι at the banquet of Iarchas. See Philostrat. Opera, ed. Olearii, pp. 117, 240.

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