Note 233 — Chapter VI · THE ADMINISTRATION OF JUSTICE IN RABAT.
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These are the Psylli of the ancients. The same gift was enjoyed by the Marses in Italy, and the Opheogines in Cyprus possessed it; the former pretended to derive it from the enchantress Circe, the latter from a virgin of Phrygia united to a Sacred Dragon.—See A. Gell. Noct. Attic., l. ix. c. 13, et l. xvi. c. 2. Strabo, l. xiii.; Ælian De Nat. Animal, l. i. c. 57, et l. xii. c. 39.