Dwarf
a human being much below the ordinary size of man. Dwarfs are described by several ancient classical writers. Herodotus gives an account of a race of dwarfs living in Libya and the Syrtes, to which Aristotle and Pliny also refer. Philetas of Cos, distinguished about 330 B. c. as a poet and grammarian was jocularly said to have carried weights to prevent his being blown away.
He was preceptor to Ptolemy Philadelphus. Julia, niece of Augustus, had a dwarf named Coropas, two feet and a hand's breadth high; and Andromeda, a freedmaid of Julia's, was of the same height. The best known of modern dwarfs was Charles S. Stratton, "Tom Thumb," born in Bridgeport, Conn.
Francis Flynn, "General Mite" was 21 inches high at 16. a DWARKA, maritime town of Guzerat, India, on the W. side of the peninsula of Kathiawar, in the Dominion of Baroda, 235 miles S. W. of Ahmedabad. On an eminence overhanging the seashore stands a great temple of Krishna, visited annually by 10,000 pilgrims.