Opening the library…
Ad Nationes
Tertullian
We are indeed said to be the “third race” of
Cynopæ. This class would furnish the unnatural “teeth,” and “jaws,” just referred to.
Sciapodes with broad feet producing a large shade; suited for the “incestuous lust” above mentioned.
Literally, “which come up from under ground.”
Tertullian got this story from Herodotus, ii. 2.
Ipsius animæ organo.
Faucibus.
Utpote linguatuli.
This is one of the passages which incidentally show how widely spread was Christianity.
De Superstitione.