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Show Cuar.7.§.3. The fartBookeopehejiribypart (CHAP: 7.9.4 VARRO /eribit )reghanté Athenicnfibi CRAN AO, /iecefore Cecroris (UF am temnofirt, EVSEBTVS G& HizRONYMVS Yadbre codemCEcrors permanente, diluainm fuit,guod appellstum e# DéyCALIONIS! (that is) Ia these times (46 V anno reporteth) CRANAYVS the fuiccefor of CecROPS Porerning the Athenians,or as our Ev sent ys.ani! Hietrome/ty/Cecrors yer lining,thar Floua (called Devcar rons hefar The/falia drowned. This Floud happened in. the Winter.time about Parnajfus 7 witnefle Ariftorle in the firft of his Meteors. And Varre (whom Saint Augufline fo ofteti €: +4: citeth for his excellent Learning e{pecially in Antiquities ) findeth this Floud of Deg. talionto haue happened in the time of Cranaws, who lucceeded Cecrops : Orofius thinkes it fomewhatlater , Amphytrion reigning in Athens , the third from Cecrops : Onely this of Dencalion was very great, and reached notonely ouerThe/falicit felfe, and the Regi- ons adioyning Weftward, but it couered the greateft part of itélie : and either aa fame', or.fome otherparticular Floudthen happening, oppreft Egypt, faith Eu/ebins. x, And therefore did the Greekes eytherthinkeit, or faineit to be vniuerfall, and Dewcalion *° then King, fauing himfelfe and fome others on the Mountaine ofThe/falie ( ofalt other the higheft, faith Solus ) was by reafon thereof( as Strabo witnefleth ) {aid to be thesofin:t.i43 happencd: preferuer of Mankind. That this Floud couered a greatpart of /talie , Plinie and Solinus Strab.1.§. And in the beginning ofthe elenenth Chaptetofthe fame eighteenth Bookejhe victh thefe Words': Eduxit ergo Moses ex Egypte popilum Dei noui[sione tempore Cecropis make it probable,whoaffirme,thatthe people thet inhabiting falie; were thetfore cal- onde ae led tute: guiaab imrivus dilunyfuperfuiffent ; and therefore alfo were they efteemedPiin.ibid, Athenienfinis Regis; cam apud'Affyrios regnaret Afeatades, apud Sicyonios Marathi, apud Arginos Tripas: Moses led the people of Godout of Egypt about the latter tim of Cercops King of the Athenians, Alcatades raigning oner the Ajfrians,, oer the Sicyonians Marathus, and ouer' the Argives ‘Triopas! So as leauing the curiofitie of a few yeeres,moreorleffeit appeateth, that this Floud of Deacal:om-wascither at thee: grefiton ofthe children of Ifrael out of Egypt, or neereit : and'then after Noeb75}. yeers,accotding to Fundtiws,who makes Cecrops to line in the yeere ofthe World2409, the moftancient Nation, as Strabo confirmeth in his firht Booke; and Trezenius-in his fecond : which 7m6rithefe Authors makethe Parents of the Sabives, atid the Sabines to be the Parents ofthe Sammites, Piceni, Lucani, Bratij, andall others inhabiting anciently the bankes ofthe A¢editerrame Sea. But that thele "wri were fot the Inhabiters " ofItalie beforethe Floud ofNeah , and fotooke name by fauing themfelues vpon the Appenine Mountaines,the Scriptures teachvs; {hewing who, and who onély then wete preferued : which is fufficient. Report hath aduenturedfurther,telling vs, that the firlh <thenaxe dips people whichafter the generall Floud inhabited Irate, were the Canse[enes: (fo named, 0b-415.0ut from Camefe,whom Ca tT0 ia originibus anotherof Assia his Authots,names fora con: vefaith,ee fort ofanus) which peopleliued altogethera fauage life; till fuch time as Satarne arti. "ane(e wasthe uing on thofe Coafts, deuifed Lawes to. gouerne them by : the memorie ofwhofe AG@s$ on oF orifwe follow Atercator, then 739.yeeres after Nosh, andin the yeere ofche World 2395 Butif Dencaliow were bornein the age of the World 2356. according. to Coil man then giuing vnto Dewealion 40.yecres ofage whenthis Floud happened, it falleth within one yeere ofMercatorsaccount. But Deucalion byall approued Hiftorians faid to haue beene 82.yeéres old at that time. Now Clemens Alexandrinus dates the in that Region, Diedor and Tha#ss among the Greekes , Nepas Cafsins and Varre among Lad bx 6134 the Latineshaue preferued ; and ofwhom Virgil: time of this Floud ofDeaca/ien and the conflagration and burning it'Phaétonstiraeby thereigne ofCrotopus, King ofthe Argéues: but Crotopms lined King of the Argines fixt yeeres after Ifrael departed Egypt,which makes twenty yeeres diflerence,accordingt0 Funtlwt,who will haue this Floud and Burning to hauefallen r4. yeeres before Mul left Egypt: for tie gaue ofthe Worlds yeeres to the Floud and Burnine the yeere 2440, CemsLet-f.34° 39 Inachus the Fload of Onyges. Nowif the Floud of Obyees in Attica were 1020.9 Tor 6.yeeres before the firft Olympiad,according to Eufebins and Orofius.(as before)thel is it manifeft, that taking 763.out ofthis number of 1030. it fals out. that Ooyaes Flow, ; happened before the Hebrewes left Egypt 250.yeeres,or2 6oiyeeres,according tothe Eafebin chron. difference betweenthe opinions of Ew/ebivs and Orofins. And for myfelfe ¢ who rath! follow thofe Chronologers,which giule 6o.yeerés more to ‘bealine Shoe the Flows, eek WeEa thetimes which come betweene thefe: Floudsinthis fort. ; general Floud wasin the yeere of the World 1 656. 12¢06 was bornein the yeereot tht World 2169.foas from the beginning ofthe Floud to sacobs birth, there were comllt BeaneepeeiseocSpeer Redesborna Sods, poy 2356 bad World2.3.5 oucrwh™ch Theffalie wasyet" Kingdome ofDomeinthe hisRiewenioinens 82.yeeres,when ‘ued 82 had taed thd had med; (which addedto 2356.make 2438.his Floud was after Wezhs Floud ended,78* yeetes. An dhereto Anvias his Xenophon agrecth,who makes 700 veeres betweene che general! Floud and Dencalions birth to which adde83. yeeres Of his Age (as befor! and then the Floud of rhefalie followed the genetall 782.yéeres. The words ofth! Xenophors are thele: Ab inundatione terrarum ad erty, Pe eaiinis focundo anit Sphaeri, eptingenti Sapputantur Anni, qui watus anno dues c> oftoointa Theffaliam vie inundatam: From the drowning of the world to the birth . Pccculien, De rhe fel ( i"ft Primus ab athéreo venit SA TV RN VS Olympo, Arma Lov isfugiens, & regnisexulademptis, Abted$. 3155 Saty awe defcending from the Heanenshigh, Fearing the Armes of Iv p17 his Sonne, His Kingdomeloft, and banifht thence; dothflic. at leaft 25 o.yeeres,or thereabours. Ex/ébive in his Chronologié makes it 2 30.& fo doth P.Orofies : Exfebiusabout the so.yeere of Mofes life, and Cyrillus about the 67. and both after Noaks Floud 770-yeeres: forthefe be Clemseas Alexandrinus his words: Flt autem ia Gracia tempore quidem Phornei, qui fit pofl Inachum, innedatio give fis tempore Ogygis: There happened. in Greece in the time of Photheus,who Lined afit - Malwit. byall : for that of The/falie ( called Dencalions ) followedthat of Attica (called Ogg) Clem. Alex. %. a Isgenus indocile, ac difperfume montibus alti Compofiit, Legefi, dedit ; Latinmd, vocaré and to Mofes his egreffion the yeere'2454. And yet Cedrenus thinke that 24o/eswS more ancient,and lined with Jeachas ; but that cannot be true : for then had the Floud of Dencalion,and the burning ofPheéton,preceded the Floud ofOgyees which is denyed flregx ctef: ia geere ofSPHARVS, are nimbred 700, yeeres, andwhen DEY CALION was 82: yeereipA, 2 te QDI AOc0 mot NORMS Floud: mer the Vmbri OfDEVCALIONS Floud: andthat this was fall Elona: vniner nt. ofany remna a in Italic Second Floud ofgreat fame,and of which the time is mote certaine,was that of Dencalion in The/falzas of which °S.Augaitine out-of Varro: Hes temporibus( ut ofthe Eliffory of the World, 40 Rudepeople on the Mountaine tops he wonne Tolinetogether, and by.Lawes : which done, He chofeto call it Latium. And afterward in the Verfes following he {peaketh ofthe Aufones;andafter them,ofthe Steams Nations, which againe fought to dif- plant the ancient Inhabiters: Tam manus Aufovie, crgentes ventre Sitani, Virg. Bisa Then came thAsfonian Bands; and the Sicanian Tribes. Ofthefe Sicani (whichlefr Spaine, and {at downein italic) T.hucydides and Plinie gine te- rhyzyd.t. 6! ftimonie: who were again expelled by the Ligg,faith Thucydides,Aftet all thefe plaritati- 24%! 3.9 ons Screplantationsscamethe /mbridefcetided of the Ganlesfaith Avsins, not OFthofe snniusex sez. Gaulesof France, but of thofe ofScythia, who commandeda great part of sralée ,euen all miele Tbalrate. go-Metruria and Campania: as Hetodetys,Pliaie, and Diongfias hauc allured vs: andtherfore persd.t.r, this Floud-of Dewcalion was long after. that of Neh. Forall thofe Nations were planted Pin, Ff, in /talicanddifpoffett ofItalie again,heforethe /mbri were cuct heard of,or had being. ""%" G3 So that Kingdome was.firft called Cama/ene,then Latinmor Satwrnia.then Aufonia, then Sicania; before the Kmbri(in whofe time Dewealions Floud happened) polfett the famey about 306, yeeres beforethe Warre of Zrey: Leeagn then gouernitig Arcadia; whio being the father of two.and twentic forines; the youngett called O¢setrins inuaded Italie, who Pasfanc deca aucit the name ofOcrorria.This nameit held yntill (alus of the fame Nation changed 4.8. it into sralicafter his owacname, abouts so. ysetes before the fall of 7747, After thele, wit-ronger€ . Hs CA * |