| Greek Name |
Transliteration |
Latin Spelling |
Translation |
| Nuloi Nouloi |
Nuloi or Nouloi |
Nuli |
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| A Back-Foot from the Nurenburg Chronicle, 1493 |
THE NULOI (or Nuli) were a tribe of Indian men with backward-facing, eight-toed feet.
Pliny the Elder, Natural History 7. 23 (trans. Rackham) (Roman encyclopedia C1st A.D.) :
"Megasthenes [Greek historian C4th B.C.] states that on the [Indian] mountain named Nulus there are people with their feet turned backwards and with eight toes on each foot."
Sources:
- Pliny the Elder, Natural History - Latin Encyclopedia C1st A.D.
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