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Show ~Cuar.6, 6.4, The fecond Booke of the first part oe 266 A c HAPS. hed : Quem ue obferued, that Prometheus flourif both Exfebius and Saintdaguftine ha emot dettor fuille ed afiGtions and thathe liued aboutthis time, the moft approued Hiftorians and Antiqua- ries, and among them Ew/ebius and Saint Auzaftine haue not doubted: For the great iudgement which ¢/as had in Affroxomy, faith Saint Angufline , were Sihoa staesecae led by the names of conftellations, P/eiades and Hyades: Others attribute vnto hin the re fiiding out Ofthe Moonés Courfe; ofwhich Archasthe fonne ofOrchomenus chaltageth rer bomines , qua Augl.r8.c8. propterca ferant delutoformalje on pi ,met ePro readto e Hor ea eng the t f remhauendeth ehef us expou deh hrafi tgrt ha andio Theop <a Sadome: ions : ande 5fchylus affirmeth, nuent wifei to ence refer e;. pertiner , jentia i tee ; thens ledge of Prome knowlecg hat the the know Japiters fire, was meant, that e of rai T the ftealin A prom.vindt-fe onne sen hes celeftiall bodies. Againe, tts esemmetti the inuention: ‘Of this 4/eas Arcadia in Peloponne/istooke name: and therefore didthe Arcadians vaunt that they were moreancient thanthe Moone : Et Laws gensprior ills d as aad eathe Rei ine de cit. Dtie ye artfoto vie this fire,astherby he gauelife to the Images of Woo LVinesex Hef aoee . : -- ; ee e ‘e ng amio e peopl e ‘thof , meaning thatbefore his birth and being ee as o ion : t By e. figur "thing elie worthy of men, bur externalforme andtrail ya ag re deuou while the es hisen fus, Cauca Hill being bound on the top ofthe Motions es, Natur e the tigat inuef o hadt he Was meant the inward cate and reftlelfle defire simam ene altif Jdeo {faid: foitis for s; bodie enly Heau nccsof and Influe [pectaret 37 at rh fist : whichisto be vnderftood; faith NatalComes,before there had been any obferia: 04 «Mt tion ofthe Moones courfe : or of her working in inferiour bodies: Andthouch Here be ,: 10 tharbeftow thefinding outthereof vpon Exdymion : others(as Xenagorason Tivhow : yer Yacius Txetzes,a curious fearcherof antiquities, gauc it Atle ofLibya: who betidechie gifts of minde,was a man of vnequalledand incomparable ftrength : from whom Thales the aélefiaw, asit is faid, had the ground of his Philofophy. "gt fereno celoquam long ifsime aftra, fignorsm obitus C ortus GCancafas , tothe end that hemight in acleere skyedifcerne afaroft the Settings : rifings ly. ‘the Starres: though Diodorus Siculus expounds it otherwife, and others dinerl Cer S metheus, faith Herodotus, Apollonius, Hefiodus, and Strabos Hefiodus one him jie Aft agebant omnia "© Pandora for mothers the reft Clymene:' Homer in the Afteenth ofhisode rh makes Diicalionthe fonne of2470s > but hee mufeneeds have meant fome other Deuce } Vtforsferebat : donecipfe repperi Signorum obitas,ortufg, quimortalibus Sunt utiles: G multitudinemartinm "ow ; forelfe either VAy/fes was miftakens or Homer, who putthetale into his mouth F 2 Vipfes after his returne'fromTro3, fained him felfe'to bé the brother of Idomeboas wig His repperi: componere inde literas ; was fonnéto this later Dewcafion the fonneofMinos:but this AZi#os lined but one ase bee fore Troy was taken: (for Jdomeneus {erued in that waite)and this Dewealion the fonne of Prometheus; who ited at once with Aofes,.was long'beforé. In the firtt Dewcalions ti happened that greatinun The/alie: by whichin effe@ eucr y foule,in thofe parts Orne: i dation inSer a Matremd, Mufarum anxi ego Memoriam Perutilemcunclis, oc. But Fortune govern'dall their workes, till when . ~ Tfirft found out how Starres did fetand rife : 30 perifhed, biit Dencalion; Pyrrha his wife, and fomefew others. Iris affirmed thatat fie time ofthis floud in Theffalie, thofe peopleexceedediin all kinde of wickednefle and villany: A profitable artto mortall men + andasthe impiety of men isttie forcible attractine of Gods vengeanc that Nation for their foule finnes perith by waters? as inthe time ofWarhit e, fo didall and cruelty ofall man kinde dtew on them that genéralldeftru@ion by he corrtiption the floud tee fall. Onely Denealion, and'Pyrrha hiswife, whom God fpared, were both of chem eftcemed tobelouers of Vertue,of Iuftice and of Religion. Of whom Oxjd: And othersoflike vfeI did deuife : Aslettersto compofe in learned wife _ _dfirltdid teach,; and firft didamplifie The Motherof the Atu/es. Mdemerte. "Africanus takes Prometheus farre moreancient, and but-g4..yeeres after 472" = aufla®ey? phyrins fayes that he liued at once with Jnachus, wholived with J/aec. f bo ds cinis.Dee "Therelined alfo at once with 446/es, that famous. Atlas, brother to Promethens,belo ve" Being thefonnes of Zapetus, ofwhom thoughit bee faid, that they were borne .: Atofes dayes,andtherefore are by others efteemed ofamore ancientdate: yet thea Non illa melior quifquam, necamantior aqui a Virfuit : antilld reuerentior vila dearum. No man wasbetter, nor more iuft tham he: ff tage oftheir longliues gauethema part of other ages among men, which came into g World long after them. Befides thefe fonnes of Japetus, Aefculus findes two othe Wit, Oceanus and He/perus, viho being famous inthe Weft, gaue nametothe : pe and fo tothe euening Starre. Alfo befides this Atlas ofLiybia, OF Mearritaniaghee ui others which bare'the fanicriame: butofthe zybian, and the brotherof Prom! a wasthat thofe. Mountaines.whichcrofle 4frica, tothe South of Adaracco,5#s e Us, with the Sea adioyning, tooke name, which memory. P/ato in Critias beftowes 08%' the fonneof Neptune... . > on Céeroin the ffthofhis, T4/culan queftions,atfirmeththatall things writte® of.a% shens and Atlwere but by thofe names to exprefle divine knowledge. Nes" Siftinere calum: nec Prometheusaffixus Cauoa/o, necflellatus. Cepheus cam 9%artish t4r, wifidinina cognitio nomen corum ad erroremfabuletraduxiffet , Neitherfosnl jth [iid to beareep Heanen, nor Prometheus tobeefaflencd te Caucasus, nor Gephen' ett serene;, valelfe their dinine knowledgehad raifed vpon their names she usfables. . : had a a Ndiin this age of the World; and'while azo/es yerlined, Deucalion reioned in us Theffalie, Crotopusthen ruling the 4re%#es.: This Dewcaliox was the fonof Pry: teftimonie, Promvind: e §yV. Of Deucalion azd Phaeton. Of this Mans knowledge AL{cylusgines thes Avfchylia OS oftheHitorie oftheWohh a i gp - Orpheusfometime exprelt Time by Prometheus, formetime hetooke him fot on sd as Rhew coninxline Promethen, Buthat the ftory of Prometheus Was ©" fia? Norany-woman godlier than thee. Ttisalfo affirmed that Promethius fote-toldhis fonne Dewcalion ofthis ouerfowin and aduiféd him to prouide for his fafty :'who hereupon prepared' himéelfea Milde Of Veflell, which Lucian in his Dialogue ofTimoncalles Cibotinm « andothers L. srtax. A nd becanfeto thefe circumtftances, they afterward addethe fending out ofthe Doue, to dif couerthe waters fallanddécieafe, Ifhould verily thinke thatthis Story had beenb "a imitation of Noahs floud deuifed byithe Greekes, did notthe times. {6 much differ ahd Saint Uyguftine with othersof the Fathers and reverent Writers approuethis Story of Aguile ci 50 Deucalion. Among other his children Dewealion had thefe two of note, Hellen of bok uit eid 8, ae had ie the name ofiHellas,and:Adelantho,on whom Neptune is{aid to hauebegot biogHieres togstaheeine-_ 0 Delphos forenowned dmong the Heathen forthe Oratleof 7" And that-which wasnolefle-ftrange and maruailous than this floud,;was that great ae enn pe aboutthis time alfo happened vader Phacton ;not :n pia , Dutiniitria, a Region in /aly, andabout Cume, andthe Mountaines : 7oe sof both which the Greefes;after their manner, haue Ddz inuented many ftrange § VI |