Note 19 — BOOK X.
Rowland Smith translation
In the original it is "ant-gold" χρυσόν μυρμηκιαν, turned up by the "myrmex," an animal between a dog and fox in size, supposed to be the ant-eater. See note vol. i. p. 378, of Blakesley's Herodotus. William Lisle, the poet, thus improves upon the "ant-gold:"—
"A yoke of gryphons chain'd with that fine gold Which emmots, nigh as big as Norfolke sheepe, At sand-hill side are said to gath'r and keepe."
The reader will of course remember Milton's allusion to the gryphons. Paradise Lost, B. ii. 945.