| Translation |
Concerning this island (Ierne/Ireland) I have nothing certain to tell, except that its inhabitants are more savage than the Britons, since they are man-eaters as well as heavy eaters, and since, further, they count it an honourable thing, when their fathers die, to devour them, and openly to have intercourse, not only with the other women, but also with their mothers and sisters; but I am saying this only with the understanding that I have no trustworthy witnesses for it. |
| Quotation source |
Strabo, Geography, 4.5.4, ed. and trans. Horace Leonard Jones, The Geography of Strabo, vol. 2 (London, 1923), 259, 261 |
