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Buffon's Natural History. Volume 09 (of 10)

Note Q — Front matter (continued 2)

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Cephos, Strabo, lib. xv. Keipon vocat esseque tradit facie satyro similem. Dal. Plin. Hist. Nat. lib. viii. cap. 19. Nota. The cebus of the Greeks, the cephos of Pliny, which is pronounced kebus and kephus, might very possibly take its origin from koph, or kophin, which is the name of an ape in the Hebrew and Chaldean.

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