128. If the satyr was the orang-outang, the great human ape
(Buffon, Hist. Nat. tom. xiv. p. 43, etc.), one of that
species might actually be shown alive at Alexandria in the
reign of Constantine. Yet some difficulty will still remain
about the conversation which St. Anthony held with one of
these pious savages in the desert of Thebais (Jerom. in Vit.
Paul. Eremit. tom. i. p. 238).