On Idiocy And Imbecility
On Idiocy And Imbecility
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■ See the Anthropological Treatises of J. F. Blumenbacb, translated by Thomas Bendyshe.
Digitized by Google WOLF BOYS. 371 stories of children, deserted by their parents, being fed and guarded by wild beasts. Everyone knows about Eomulus and Eemus being suckled by a she-wolf, which some of the ancient writers have gravely narrated as if worthy of belief.^ According to ApoUodorus, the beautiful huntress Atalanta was exposed when a child, and suckled by a she-bear.
Herodotus ^ mentions that Cyrus... was exposed when an infant by his grandfather, Astyages, and that his parents gave out that the child had been nourished by a bitch. This, he thought, arose from the woman who preserved Cyrus being called 2f axw, which meant a bitch in the Median tongue.
The best authenticated story of this kind is given by Pro- copius.^ During the Gothic war a woman in Kcenum, having been either carried away or killed, her new-bom child was left deserted. The infant was cared for and nursed by a she-goat. After the alarm had passed away, the neighbours returned and found the child, whom they named -
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
■ See the Anthropological Treatises of J. F. Blumenbacb, translated by Thomas Bendyshe.
Digitized by Google WOLF BOYS. 371 stories of children, deserted by their parents, being fed and guarded by wild beasts. Everyone knows about Eomulus and Eemus being suckled by a she-wolf, which some of the ancient writers have gravely narrated as if worthy of belief.^ According to ApoUodorus, the beautiful huntress Atalanta was exposed when a child, and suckled by a she-bear.
Herodotus ^ mentions that Cyrus... was exposed when an infant by his grandfather, Astyages, and that his parents gave out that the child had been nourished by a bitch. This, he thought, arose from the woman who preserved Cyrus being called 2f axw, which meant a bitch in the Median tongue.
The best authenticated story of this kind is given by Pro- copius.^ During the Gothic war a woman in Kcenum, having been either carried away or killed, her new-bom child was left deserted. The infant was cared for and nursed by a she-goat. After the alarm had passed away, the neighbours returned and found the child, whom they named -
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