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Show ThefecindBooke ofthefirstpare Cuar 8... But after the death of Mofes, and while Jofua yer gouernedIirael, ere an Beyer ofThebes, of a Phoéhician bred ia Egppeycame therice with his ov Ca _ sin Cyrusand Cilix, fay Cedrenus Se Cartins) and el ea € sates oe o ok don': to wit, thenewTyras,and broughtinto Phanivia(fo cal edafter ae a gi t. cond fonne ) the vie ofletters : whichalfo Cadmus in his ooo $e ' i taught the Grecian'. Por Taurus King of Crete, when he flurpt tfec igre, hac : Me: e thence vof which the Poets deuifed the fable of Tapéters transfor ete wets !y whorir that ftealth was alfo fuppofedto be made. Pomponius Sabinus ma 2 am the f King of Phenicis, "and findes Camas ‘his fucceflour, whom hee cal et ae vl childe:andit feemeth that Be/us was the Father of Agenor, andnot Neptune : recatife the fucceffors of Déao held that namealwayesin reuerence, making ita part of their owne,as Afaruball, Hanerbal: which memorie /#rgi/ alfo toucheth in thefe Vertes : fs . 4 . Hic Regina graucmngemmisanrog, popofcit Inpleuit g, moro pateram: quaws Belus & omnes A Belofoliti, Cuar.8: 9.1. Otherare,asBerofia outof Jofephu s, was founded by Tyrws the fonne of Zapher« Andfor the Region who conceiues that Tyre it felfe, though Califthenes deriueit, ab eae of Ageno¥ gue ic that namie.' But ‘that either Agenor inPhenicia, or Cadmushis fonne in Greece, were the Inuentess of Letters jit is ridiculous 2 and therefore the difpute vnneceflary. Ss The Ethiopians affirmethat Ariz, Orion Orphens, Linus, Hercules, Prometheus, Cade mus, andvothers,;had from then the firttlight of alltho 10 Policies, which they afterward profelt,and taught others fe Arts, Science', and ciuitl = andthat Pythagoras himfelfe wasinftructed by the Lybians : to wit, from the Southand whom thofe'which inhabited néerer the outlet of Nilus, SuperiourEey'ptians : from as uinitieand Philofophie: and from theithe Greekes,then theyfay borrowed theit Dibarbarons; receitied Ciuilitie. Againe,the Phoenicians challengethis intiention of Lettersand of Learning : ackriowJedging nothing from the Egyptians at all neither doethey allow that Agenor and his fonnes were Affricans ; whence Lucan. Phanices primi (fame fi credituP) auf Manfaram radibas docem lenarefiguris. Whether this 5elus were Father or Grand-father to Azenor, the matteris ang Butit feemes to meby comparing oftimes,that Be/as was Anceltorto thel Bi and preceded dgenor. For were Belus, or Jupiter Belus, the fonne of Neptape by 2 My the Daughter of Epaphas, or were hethe Sonne ofThelegonns, according to Egeets itis agteed that Cecropsthen ruled in Attica: andint he end of Cecrops time faith S./ 4 bufline, Mofes left Egypt: Azenors faccefforlining atonce with Yofwa, Nowthat Mn Phenicians firkCik fame may Credit haue.) In rude Charaéters dar'd our words to graue , And that Cadmus was the fonne of Agenor, and wasa Pheenician, aiid not an Egyptianit appeareth bythat aniwet made by Zeno ; whenh ee in'a kindeof teproach was calledaftrangerand nota Pheenician : returned aboutthe fame time into the Territory of Zidow,T cannot doubr : neither doe Tdenie, but that he gaue that Regionthe name of Phéenitia, inhonout ofhis Son e Si patria eft Phenix, quid tum ?nam Cadm is oe ipfe Phenix ; cai debet Gracia deca libros. in {tead of thebuilding of Tyreand Zidon,it is probable thathee repaired and fortifie é both : ‘and therefore was called a founder, as Semiramis and Nebuchodonofor were o Babylon If a Phenician bétne Lam, what thén Cadmus was fo : to whom Greere owes The Bookes of Jearned men. , Forbeit true that --4zenor wasof the fame Nation,and brought vp in Egypt : whet. he learnt the vfe of letters ( Egypt flourifhingin‘all'kinde of learning in Afofes ume) a !he came to faue his one Territory ; or othetwile to defend'thécoatt ofCznaan, from the Ifraclites : who We by Adofes led out of Ezypt, tothe great lofle and difhonourof that Nation : and by . Ja conducted ouerJordan, to conquerand pofleff e the Canaanites Land.For thoughts Egyptians, byreafon ofthe lofle which theyteceiue by the hand of God, in the Me i Sea, and by theten plagues caft on thembefore that, dand by the flaughteroffoimaty the Male children atthe fame time,could not hindér the Hébrews from inuading el by Land: whichalfo they knewhad founan y Powerf Jerts inter-jacentjand the {trong Edomites, Moabit ull Nationsto defendit : the ef es, Emorites'& Ammonites theitbo® dérers ; yet Eeype having fach Vefelsjor Ships, alt probability neglect to Garrifonthe Seacoat or Gallies,as werethen in vée: ir had to {pare; and which they might perfor t;or affift Agenor with{uchfo 1c me with the greater facilitic, in that litims which held the fhores of Cavan' hextad ais ioyning vnro them, were theirme: Fee° and Confederates. C.t gv, 29« Nowas itappea by-che counté Of the tatie:thofe Citiesof phenicia, which mor was {aid tohaueteth built(chatis,to haue fortifiedand defended againtt Jo/ue, andagt" the Tribes after him,as Zidon, Sor, or Tyre, by Zofia calledthe ftrong Citie, can e Ward Prolomsis, 4czrb and Dory Were all that Phenicia had in thofé dayes. : Tharthe Kings ofPhenicis were weird' mighty,efpecally fenceagainit tract; fecondlybythis : by Sea,ir appeares, firlt by oe were glad of their alliance : third ly; that Dawidand Salomoz could not matter them bit that Regals defendedit felfe f 3-yeeres againft one oftheir Cities, hough they were BM a King of Kings,Nabuchodonofor: ander the great(who being made vieorious 1 daclylorum: and the Greekes fromthe word Phonos , of flaughter, becaufethe Phoenicians flew all thag came on their coalts) yet for myfelfe I take-ierhar Phenix the fone The Queene anon commands the waighty bowle (Waightie withprecious ftonesand mafiie gold) To flow with wine. This.B-/zs vs'd of old, Andall of Belus Line. werehe by Nation an Egyptian, yetitis verylikely that either ofthe Eliftory oftheorld,~~ and Lye bythe prouidence of God, feemes ‘0A able){pent moze timein the xecouery of Tyre,t hanin the conqueft of allthe Cities "Ore - Ott ofdoubr the Phoenicians were very ancient : and from the Records and Chro=reeph. contra, hicles of Tyre, Tofephus the Hiftor ian confirmes a great part ofhis Antiquities. The "rienm, Thracians againe fub{cribeto none of thefe reports: but affirmeconftanrly that the great Zamolxis foitithed among them: when Aflzs liued in Atasritania: Nilus and Vulcan in Egypt :and Ochus in Phenicia. Yea, fome of the French doe not bluth to maint 40 that the ancient Gales taughtthe aine; Greekes the vfe of Letters, and oth er Sciences. And doen ot we knowtl iat Our Bardes and Draid 1 es are as ancient as thofe Ganles, and that they lent their fonnes hither to be by them inftru Laftly, whereas others beftowthis inven éted in all kinde of learning ? tion on A40/es, the fame hath no probabilitie at all, for helined at fach timeas Learn ing Af/yria, andhee himfelfe was brought vp and Arts flourifhed moft,both in Egyps, and in sofancie. all the learning ofthe Egyptians, fromh is 2 But true itis that letters were inuen ted by thofé excellent Spirits of the firft ag , and ll loud either by Seth or Enos, or by whomelfe God knowes; from dome and vnderftanding hath proceeded. And as the fame infinite God 391s prefent wir hall his Creaturés: fo hath he giuen the fameinuention to divers Nations : whereo ¢ one hath nor had comrx with the other ; as well in this as in many knowledges orher + foreuen in Afexico, when Bookes afterthe manner ofthofe Hier it was fitft di{Couered, there was found written aglipbicks, anciently yfed bythe Egyptians, Other Natiofis' andfo had thofe Americans and 4 Kinde*of Heraldrie; and their Princes Ciffering in A andScutchions, Jike vato thole vied by the Kings and Nobilitie of ther Nations; Furs aaturali a communia, Lett tha ye, Natural , l Lawes are ¢ O01 Iuvife aA gener all, [CMs Gg3 §.M. |
