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Show The secondBooke oftbirk?art2" Carag $5 Cua PazSis, NorSoutherne heate,nor Northerne fhow 404 ‘That freezing to the ground doth grow, the World, Was knowne by thenach the I om pleof tupiter Obympties, Chefe games And keep the greedy Merchant thence: The fubtile Shipmen waywill finde, Stormeneuerfo the Seas with Winde. ponne/wneere the riuer apes ee Coorg ss id ply i After the death of Herm est i e pr ane ec {continued for many yeeres , til! iphitus,by aduicefrom the Oracle of Apollo, re-e blithed them, Licurgusthe Law-gi- : uer then lining : from whichtime they were continued by the Grecians,till the reign of.,, Theodofies the Emperor, according to Cedrenus : others thinke that ey werediffolued ynderConflantine the Great. de were exercifedfrom sree 1y¢ere compleat, in the plaines.of Elsa City of Pelg- / . ; Therefore the fiGions(or letthem becalled: conieCtures)paintedi n Maps, doe ferue oaly.to mifslead {uch difcouerersas: rafhlybelecuethemdrawing vponthe publithers, either fomeangrycurfes,or well deferued {corne;but,to'keepe their owne credit, they! cannotferuealwaies. To which purpofe I remember a pretyieft of Dom Pearode Sar to miento,amorthy Spanifo Gentleman;who had beene employed byhis Kingin planting fernpulous. For itis notto be feared;thattime fhould runne backward and by re thethings themfelues to knowledgéjmake our coniectures.appeareridiculous: What if foie good Copy of an ancient Authorcould be found,fhewing«af wehaue it notalrea. dy) the perfecttith:of thefe vncertainties ¢ would it bee more fhame to:haue beleeued inthe meant while; Asnias or Tornielus, than to haue belected nothing? Heere Iwill norfay,that thecreditywhich wee giueto Assias, may chance otherwhiles to begiuen to.one ofthofe Authors whofénames he pretendeth. Letiz fuffice,thatin regardofalls credit to all thatis written of Greece, till the reigne Manypatient and piercing braines hauc laboured to finde out the certaine beginning of thefe Olyapiads, namely,tofet them inthe true yeere of the World,and the reigne of fuch andfuch Kings: but fecing they all differin the firtt accompt,that is,of the Worlds ; 20° thority,I- had rather truttScaligeror Torwiellas.than Awnins, yet him than them, ifhisal fettion be more probablejand more agreeable to. approuedHiftories than their coniec- ture,asin this pointit feemesto me;it hauing moreouergotten fome credit, by the approbation ofmaoy,and thofe not meanly learned. 30 >' 'To'end this tedious difputation) Tholdita furecourfe in examination of fuch opilllOfis,as-hatie oncegotten thie credinof being generall.fo to-dealeas Pacumini in capwadi ents , Solinws, and manyothers adhere. ge sgycinlaan Strombt. _ The diftance betweene the deftruétion of Troy,and the firft Olympiad, is thus collected 30 byEratoithenes. From the taking of Troy,to the defcent of Hercules his Pofterity into :" eponnefus, werefourefcore yeeres;thence tothe Jonian expedition,threefco re yeares, ie that expedition to thetime of Lysurgus his government in Sparte,one hundredfif- eae sandthence to the firft olyenpiad, one hundredand eight yeeres. In this account merey:;obtaining thus muchjthat'none ofthem {hould perish, vntill che Commonaly hadboth pronouitced him worthy ofdeath, and eleéted a bettetinhis place. The | demnation wadhafty;forasfattas cuery name was readsall che town cryed;Lethim dict ee ve eens, firft eerie + Ree included. i ath. it j . aae mae ourit were, to feeke the beginning of the Olympiads, by numbring the viet by a ne tak ing, of Trey, whichis of a date farre more vacertaine, Letit fuffice, but the execution required more leifure, forin fubltituringrof another, fome:notoriols oe y nowing the can ofthefe games,tohaue been inthefoure hundreth vacelofthe Perfon, or bafenefleofhis condition;or infufficiencyof his:quality ym eachinew onethat was offered\tobe reiected: fothar finding the worfeandlefle sa | ~ Y or things toMowing the Olympiads , mutt needs teach vs howtofinde when they ay : hic o this good vfe,we hauethe enfuing yecres, ynto thedeat h of Alexander the Great, thus dividede bythe fame Eratofthenes, Fromthe be ginning of the Ofmpiads,to the Son paf" 5 i fage ai Xerxesinto Greece,two hundreth fourefco re and {cuenteene yeares ; from thence a thebeginning ofthe Peloponnefian Watre,cight and forty yeares ; forwards tothe viry o 4nder uien 2 r, ‘ he battaile of Lewd bps ; bev... hee Of the Olympiads, andthe time when they began. I tate . Frerthis dinifion oftheAffjrdan Empire; followestheipfta uration bine Oyym ve ges yg ee i r leath -Pian: Zames\by Iphitus;intheteighedfthefame King 4eéa,andin AKT . *. me fiftieth yeerevIt isi oh Lkhow,the génetall opinioni s-sharshele gamesae a Worts blithedb heny iphitusirithe filt of-totham "yetiisnotthat opinion fogeneral l,|truth but mail" bebate #; canine, The thors, weighty endighs is, tht?4 haie ginen tothema : morecarly beginni ng. Theitrta s, ais in fitting thofethings vntwothéfaered Hiktorysiwhich-arefoundin prophane Auth 8s G wee fhould not betoo carefull of drawing i the 7Hebrewes to ahoféeSworkes oftime, workesof time, Wi WP had Far Tad ik 2 ad no reference ony ar to thefe beginsllgs theirSG affaires, it is enough, g that fetting a25, =F ofaccompts,we ioynethem to matters ofI/rachatiddud in due order- thefe e,whereoccafion segue who Thele Olympian games and exercifes of:aciwityyweresfirk meafure d by/see the d the length of the race by his owne footes by-whichinfitute . usRyabagor fiarce as found out © 5 DY. ature andlikely5ftrength ofHertwles his: body.iEbeytook he Mou®enanae, fromthe not ; : eall . the City taine Olympus, but from : Olympia, ; otherwile Smet A chs ;«where alo Pifasnecre yato Els wh vapitet® and. hy ae ste Paes Tra, wee may reckon backe 2 the taking ofthat City, fetting a fe, th ing fall ents, which hauereference ther fo, in there proper tmes.The cers theifurther anid the more that they fought, ‘ix was finallyragrced,) chat thie old shouldbe" § Sarehbiche Cyrilagainft fulian and. Didymus, begin the Olympiads the nine and fortieth of Ofias, or Acariah. aA: aes. v2 3} : ; : Exfevins, Whois contraryto himfelfe in this reckoning,accounts with thofe tharf the very firkt Olympiad inthe beginningof the foure hundreth and fixth ycere after Trop; yetheetelleth ys, that it was inthe fiftieth yeere of Vzza, whichis (as I finde it)two yeeres later. eo : E : Eratofthenes placeth the firkt Olympiad foure hundredarid fe ucm yeeres after Troy,rec- gretoh/havnd He lockt the Senatours vp within the State-houfe;and offered their lines to the Peoples er yeare,they can hardly iump in particulars thereon depending. fipmring the yeeres that paffed betweene 3to whom Dionyfins Halicaruafjens, Diodorus Sic len i ein withthe multitude,finding themdefirousto put allthe Senatours of the Cityto death. keptfor lacke ofbetter. Fromthis inftitution,/arre accompted the Greciax times, and their {tories, to be certaine: but reckonedall before either doubtful, or fabulous: and yet Pliny cines little Plinl. 36.0.4; of Cyrus, who beganinthe fine and fiftieth Olympiad,as Enfebins out of Diedore, Caflor, Polybius, and others hath gatheredsin whofe timethe feuen wife Grecians flourifhed. ForSofoz had {peech with Crefus, and Crofus was ouerthrowhe and taken by Cyrus. a Colofy-vponthe Streights of Magellan :for when Lasked him, being then myPrifo. ner, fome queftion about anTfland in thofe Streights, which, mee thought, might have done either benefit or difpleafure to his enterprife, he told me merrily, that ie wasto be called the Paiwters wines I/land;{aying, That whileftthe fellow drewthat Map;his wife fitting by;defired.to putin on¢ Countreyfor hers that fheyin imagination, mighthaue andfland of her owne. Butin:filling vp the blankes of old Hiftories,wee need notbefo . Se npiters Temple in Elis, famous among,the Grecians,and reputed amongthe wonders of The fubiecét Regions can fence, : ofthe Hiflorie of the Wali Ww5 pe y tc Philip iMa en ee, stothe battaile of fis nae ae aee stothe The ine atiat 10oleenr Pantech ife' oe glen veares ee which nut2 heerve aiseu ary towed ae co]. we S ;- Which aiee> 7alfo number he he a ieee otherwif co Na wr fsb aii ee eck Sat +)... *0F placing the inftitutis on of the O/mpiads inthe one & fiftieth yeere ofFzzia; tguments grounded vpon that which is ceytaine, concern concerni nents stounded ng the the besinni vponthat which is certaine, ing beginning o f 2nd of Alexander as alfo vponthe Aftronomicall calculatieT or the death ' a on ry 4744 . the i d Eclipfes of the Sunne - as of that ch happened when Xerxes {et out of with his his Arm Armyto inuade nua Greece Wretcé-an and ofdi1 uerss other other. ching Cyrus, is eenerally azreed that his eas King, before he was Lordof. great Mon: > REUETY Bor edstas #3 Yather an ,egan eens ete of the aieand FiatDD mpiad, and that he, a " who giuc Rae Megan) tegee SPae they ne )yeeres of reigneee 8 himbuttwentyni (followiESD ng ) S evan ully : bigs.and others bevi Tul tn flineEnfebias and others)begin a réere yéere latet,which later,which comes @ ene dees Eatin, : : comes o tna al] EMeeol Suc.n |