LIBER VIII · CAPUT 13
DRAGONS
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
Generat eos Aethiopia Indicis pares, vicenum cubitorum. id modo mirum, unde cristatos Iuba crediderit. Asachaei vocantur Aethiopes apud quos maxime nascuntur; narrantque in maritimis eorum quaternos quinosque inter se cratium modo inplexos erectis capitibus velificantes ad meliora pabula Arabiae vehi fluctibus.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
Æthiopia produces dragons, not so large as those of India, but still, twenty cubits in length. The only thing that surprises me is, how Juba came to believe that they have crests. The Æthiopians are known as the Asachæi, among whom they most abound; and we are told, that on those coasts four or five of them are found twisted and interlaced together like so many osiers in a hurdle, and thus setting sail, with their heads erect, they are borne along upon the waves, to find better sources of nourishment in Arabia.