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A creature having the head and wings of an eagle and the body of a lion.
Herodotus provides a location for the Griffins; he states that they “guard gold” in a land north of the one-eyed Arimaspians and south of the land of the Hyperboreans; perhaps more properly spelled Ippalektryon.
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