Caspij, A people nowe in Tartaria, ioyning to the sea Caspium, so inhumaine (as Strabo writeth) that when their parents erceede the age of lxx. years, they in a close place famishe them, and then they lay them in a desart, beholding them a farre off. If birdes plucke them out of their clothes, and deuoure them, they account them blessed. If Dagges or wilde beastes doe it, they account it not so happie. But if both doe it, they esteeme those men vnhappie. Other write, that they nourish Dogges of purpose to deuoure them.
Caspius, and Caspiacus, a, um, Of Caspius.Caspiæ portæ, Are broken places in the rockes of the mountaines of Caucasus, toward Hyrcania and Persia, in length as Plinie writeth seauen miles, as Solinus writeth eighte miles, in breadth so narrow, that a carte may hardly passe thorough them. Martianus writeth, that those gares were faste shutte with great yron beames, that no manne shoulde passe. In the spring time and sommer, all serpents doe repaire thither from all countries aboute, wherefore the passage that way is perillous.
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