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Show Lhe firftBoke of the firSt pare - Cuar.7.§) nettennennaotenneinpatn) Thalmudists (faith Anmias ) that many Giants faued themfelues ypon Mount Sion, But Berd/iue (whoafter Mo/es was oneofthe moft ancient, howfo cuer he haue beene fince deformed & cotrupted)dothin the fubftance of all agree with Azo/es as touching the gencrall Floud,taking from thence the beginning of his Hiftoryin thefe words: ® te aquarum cladem famofam, gaa uniuer[es pergt Orbs, Ge. Before that famous deflrutl on ofWaters,by whith the world vninerfall perifbed : witnefling withall, that Noah with his wife Titea,& his three Sons withtheir wiues(inall eight perfons/were only faued, §. IT. Of the Flond inthe time ofOcicxs : and that this was not NoausFlond. § Vtfrom the vanitie ofthe Greeks,the Cormupters ofall truth,(faith Lacantin) whowithoutall ground ofcertainty vaunt their Antiquitie, came theerrow firft ofall: who therinflattering themfelues alfo,fought to perfwade the world that there Was no Floud preceded the Fould ofOgyges,King of the Thebansin Beeotia, Rbelss-c33- orrather of U4ttica;and therefore({aith Rhodoginus. )Og yumid appellant Poete, tangy peruetus dixeris; ab Ogyze vetufl:[simo: T he Poctsgauethe name of Ogycia tothin: ding ancient,as ofOgyges the moft ancient. Butlet Ogyges be as ancient as thofe men can make him, yetit is manifeft,that helive Euftbideprap. Dut in dacobs time(though Ex/ebius makes himlater, and in Mefés time )and was bome; Enang.it0c.3. 67.yeeres after him. Thereis alfo an opinion, that O¢ yges was Cadmus ( and then wes case hefarre latter)as Rhedoginus in the ninth Booke of his Antiquities remembreth: Saat men guiin Ag yptoreguaffe autument hunc : unde fit CapMvs Gui in Greciam projet Thebas condidit, a Boxe ingulato fic nuncupat as 3 uomiam Syrerur linewa Bos aic:tur Thebk There are (faith he) whothinke that this Ogyzes did reigne in E oypt, whereby he [boule be CADMVS, whotrawailing into Greece built Thebes,fo named of B feflaine: becaufe in the Syrian Language,a Becfe s culled Thebe. But this Floud of Ogwyesfell in the yeere ofthe World 34@o.aecording to Eu/ebin whofollowedthe account ofthe Septuagint:and the Floud of Woah in the yeere 2242 after the fame account; and fo there came 1200. betweenethefe Flouds, wanting buty two,though herein Eu/ebius was much miftaken,and correéted this opinion in his Chr nologie.Nowalthoughthe very ycere and timeofthis ouerflowing in Achaia, or rathet Atticasbe notprecifely fet downe,butthat there is a great difference among Writers yet whofocuer makesit moft ancient, finds aboue 5 00.yeeres difference betweenthat ibd 70 and the general! Floud. Por Paulus Orofius affirmes,that this tempeft fell vpon the Athenians, but ro4.c.yeetts before Rome was built. Bucholzerus faith, it was 1043.elder than Rome - which was founded(according to the fame Buchelzerws)in the worlds yecte 3219.thoughafterthe dccount which I follow ( and whereofI will giue myreafons in the Story ofAbrabum) iti built inthe Worlds yeere 3280.Nowthe generall Floud preceded the building} eee : {i seer ) 1563.yeeres: and the Floud of Ogyges(as before ) 1043. > ce iG olloweth eafie calculation, that(ifhe place Ogyges in histrue age) the dit Erne =ah.tifohaas oe we ues muft be 520. yeeres, to which we(allowing 6% aa e) .580./and thatthis of Oggges was not the {amc of Noah(except wecall Nosh, theri King 0 Pivorbens enone by wieet the Floud of Ogyges Mela.lib.3. Plinlib.s. thee#ewan SeaFor Whickess ee Wiseinas >i a the bankes of Archi-Pelagt, 3 Soleabear: the 1Floudpand' that the Cittie of lopPe oppeoppidum itv Tudea was foundedbefore efore the ; and'Senne that Wwitneffe, (notwithftanding the waight © ae, antiqalsimum \Naters )there remained on certaine tai Altars offtone the Title i ofthe King, cy andof his cxicimadase. Brother Phixews,with many ofthegrounds oftheir Religion : fure it is no where foun?? nenerrafie among prophane Hiftorians norin the Scriptures,that euer the Floud ofOpyges fpredit ee felfeouer any partof Syria,muchleffe ouerall the Earth. But thar it drownedboth the Ouimetem, Regions o Attica about Atheas,and that of C4chaia in Pelopownefiss, itis very pro ib.15.30.3. ble! For it feemeth that at that time it was,wheti Helice and Bura were {wallowed ¥ (Cities feated on the North part ofPeloponne/us:) ofwhich Ouid: Cuar.7.§.2. Of theHliftory of the World, --- Si quaras Helicam,@ Burav, Athajdos urbes, Inutniesfab aquit. $b. 5430 3+ Buraand Helice; on Achaina gronnd Are foughtin vaine,but vnder Seaare found, Ofthis Flond.ofOgyges vvas inuentedthe Fable ofApes and Diana. For Latona, the Nat.combitgé daughter of Gews, the fonne, of Tita»,being beloued and forced by Jupiter, and by: hia otten with child, June thereat enraged,permitted her(as they fay.)no.part ofthe Earth to be deliuered.on;& withall,caufed the monftrous Serpent Python to follow & afftight her, wherefoeuerfhe trauelled: till at length arriuing at the Ileof Ortygia,fhe wasthere Io receiuéd ; in which the wasdeliuered,firft ofDizwa,and then of Apolo, being. Twins:: whereot:Zarlaam makes this expofition.: ‘Thatat fuch time as the Deluge (. which hap- pened im Ogyges his reigne ) ceafed, out of the, abundant moifture of the Earth ( heat by putrifaction being thereto mixed, there were exhaled fuch thick mifts and fogges,that in 4trica,and along the Coatts, ofthe Aegeam Seasncither the beames of the Sunne by day; nor ofthe Mooneby night,could pierce the ayre, orbe perceiued by the inhabi- tants : fo'as when at length ( the Earth being dryed, and thefe vapours diffipated )the ayre began to becleare,the people of Ortygsa efpyedthe lightof the Moone fomewhatPiiz4.c133 before day,& in the fame morningthe Sunnealfo appeared: fabuloufly/becaufe Diaza reprefented the Moone, and. Apollo the Sunne )they.v rere Xeported to be bornein the Lle ofOrtygiathereofafterwardscalled Delos ; whichfignifieth manifeftation. And furely it is not improbable,that the Floud of Ogyges, being fo great, as Hiftories haue reported it,was accompanied with muchalteration of theayre,fenfibly difcerned in thofe parts,and fomevnufuall face of the Skyes. Verrein his Bookes ae gentepopuli Romani (ashe iscited by Saint Angufine), reporteth out of Cafor, that fo greata mi+sngdecinir. racle happened in the Starre of Venus, as neuer was feene before, nor in after-times:s Pé*1-eap-Be Forthe colour, the greatneffe,the figure, and the courfe ofit, were changed.. This. fell out,as Adraflus Cyzicenws, and Dion lveapolitesfamous Mathematicians, affirmed,in the timeiofOgyges. o Nowconcerning the courfe ofthat or any otherPlanet, I doe not remember,that I hane any whereread of fo goodAftrologers,flourifhing among the Greeks,or elfewhere in thofe dayes,as werelikely to make any calculation ofthereuolutions of the Planets, fo exact, that it fhould needno reformation: Ofthe colourand magnitude. I {ee no reafon, why the difference foundin the Starre of Venus, fhould be held miraculous; confidering, that leffer mifts and fogges thanthofe which couered Greece withfo long darkneffe; doe familiarly prefent ourfenfes with as great alterations in the Sunne and Moone. That the figure fhouldvarie, queftionleffe it was very ftrange: Yet I cannot holdit any prodigie : for itftands well with goodreafon,thatthe fide of Venus which the Sunne beholds, being enlightned by him,the oppofite halfe fhould remaine {ha40 dowed; whereby that Planet would, vntooureyes,defcrying onely that part whereon thelight fallech, appeareto be horned, as the Moonedothfeeme; if diftance( as in otherthings)did not hinder the apprehenfion of our fenfes. A worthy Aftrologer nowliuing,who bythe helpe of perfpectiue Glaffes hath found in the Starres many things vnknowneto the Ancients,affirmethfo muchto haue beene difcouered.in Venus by his late obferuations.. Whether fomewatrie difpofition of the ayre might' prefent as much to them thatliued with Ogyges, as Galilews hath feene throughhis Inftrument; Icannottell ; fure Lam,that the difcouerie of atruth formerly vnknowne,dothrather conuince Manofignorance,than Nature oferror. One thing herein is worthy to be noted,that this great,but particular Floud of Ogyges, was (as ap- so peareth bythis of Saint Augu/line accompaniedwithfuch vnufuall (and thereforethe more dreadfull,though naturall)fignes,teftifying the concurrence of caufes with effects in that inundation ; whereas the Floud of Nosh, which was generall, and altogether miraculous, may feeme to haue had no other token, or fore-fhewing, than the long preaching of Weah himfelfe, which wasnot regarded: forthey were eating and drins Luke 17.0427 kingwhenthe Floud:came fuddenly,and tooke themall away. H Si queras Helicen,& Buran,Achaidos vrbes. Zamcwies{ub aquis, ia : "ee §. ILI, |