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Show TheferondBoake ofthefaktpart Cuavag,§ Cuar.i4.§.1. ofthe Hiftoryofthe World, entam Vrbes habttant magnas, vberrima cena: were Gerimane Nations, defcended from Afbkenaz, the fonne of Gomer : of whomthe Maximus unde Pater (fi rite audita recorder) Teucrus Rheteasprimim eff aduedus ad or as : Countrie, Lake, and river of Afcanius in.Afia tooke name. That -4bkenazx gaue name tothofe placesand people,itis not valikely :ncither vi ai,and many others, did inafrer-times paffeinto Europe : that t Optanitque locum re2no. Nonxdum Iinm COartes Pergames fleterant : habitabant vallibus imis, Hine Adater cultrix Cybele, Cory bantiagne era, ofTiras, the coniectureis fomewhat hard. Concerning Teucer, whereasH abi hafeas makes him an Athewian, I finde none that follow him ta th ameopinion. Virgil (as is before fhewéd)reporteth him'to be of e¥ete,whofe author iticis the more tobe regarded, becaufe hee had good meanes to finde the truth, which it is pre bable that erent saeumane zemus. In the maine Sea the Ile of Creete doth lie: Whence /owe was borne, thence is our progenie. fought,and intehis did follow, feeing it no way concerned . There is mount Ida; there in fruitfull Land Thence (ifI follow not miftaken fame) Tencer the eldeft ofourgrand-fires came In loweft vales. Hence Cybels vites were bought : Hence Corybantian Cymbals did remouc : And hence the nameof our /dean grouc. Thusit feemeth byVirgil, who followed furely good authority, that Tencer firlt gaue Troy wasbuilt by Dardanus; of which s: Eft locus, He[periam Graii cognomine dicumt : Terra antiqua, polews armis atque vberegleba, Anancient fruitfull Land, a warl OEnotriansheldit; nowthelaterike race, progenie Giuesit their Captaines name, and calls it /talje2 This featebelongsto vs, hence Dard anus, ‘ Hence came the Author of our ftock, Jafia s, R Anruncos itaferreSenes hic a +: a obfcnrior anwis) ortu Dardanus/deas PhrypieDenet s ut 4gris rauit adurbes, Tshr brei eic e iamgue Samnii u n, gue nunc Samothrac igfertur. Hine illum Coryti Tyrrhe na abfede profectura, Aurea nunc foliofellantis regi a calj Accipit, oc. ot vs Arwncans, 1 re memb ough time haue madethe er well, fame obfcu Of Dardanus, how bor nein stalie: Fromhence heinto Phrygia did flie. And leauin ao g Tuféaine (where he ear ft had place) With Corytus did failet But nowinthronized o Samothrace. he A golden Palace of the fits on high, ftatrie skic. " Buteontrary tothis, a 2: e fomany Autho rs, approuing and confirming it, "4" Pel; think : es that "4 the fenam Reimecelst Teusri,; and Thraces the on ofTaphet: andthattr0es, i pass Tiras or Toire he Dardanj,E : etatai : a . apa anlans, Myfians. 8, Afcaniansxaixt with the 07014 were > further thinkes that At/as reignedin Samothratiz, and g uuchi 3h rytus,or Coritus:andthat thefe wereParents to Chry/e, wifeto Date ant otherwife,and the common Tradition of Poets makes Dardanus the fonne of Jupiter, whichElecira was the daughter of Atlas, ead wi >to. Corit we Kin to whom fhe bare J/is.| Annius our of his Berofas findes the nameof C whom he giues the addition ofCorytusjas.a Title of dignitie,mak 20 danus and Jafius 5 and furthertelling vs very particularlyofthe fa Brethren, which grewto fuch heate,that finally Dardaaus killed his Brother; an upon fled into Samothrace.The obfcurity of the hiftoriegiues ae to pian { ing whathelift.that louenotto vie fuch libertie, will forbeareto determine any thing heres in. Butif Dardagus were the Sonneof /upiter, itmufthauc beene of fome elder Lupiter than the Fatherof thofe that liued about the Warre of Troy. Sq itis likewife probable line of Dardasus in manner "following. S R Daughteror Necce Batia was the fecond wife of Dard inns, founderof Troy. / opinion of-Roccace. For (as hath often beenfaid) there were many Zupéters,and many aa almoft euery name of Gods ; buteit was the cuftome toafcribe to fome one the ags ofthe réft, witlrall belonging t6 them. Therfote I willnot greatly trouble myfelf , _ with making any narrow {earch into thefe fabulous antiquities,but fer down , the Pedigreeaccording to the general fame ; allowing to , ‘Tewcer fach Parentsas Diodorus giues, becaufe ~ others give him none,and carrying the He nobis propriefedes : hine Dardanus ortes : Jafinfque Pater, kenus aqueprincipe nofirum. He/periathe Grecians call the plac e: Atquecquidem memini (fama oft the that -4¢/as the Father of Elec?ra wasrather an Jtaliawthanan African, whichalfo is theyo OExnotriicoluere viri; nuncfama minores Italiam dixiffe, ducis de nominegen tem, Alle Aencid.y the Sonne of Scamander and /da, Lordofthe Country, not founder of the Citi Tothe Rheetean fhores: and reigned there Ere yet faire Ilion was built, andere The Towers of Troy: their dwelling place they fought Dardawus inthe famebooke he {peakesthu i now SES: ale : © hee did flatrer) whether Tewcer were of Crete or no. Reinece tn rather embrace opinion of Diodorus, and others that thinkehim a Ph7j an, by which rep ort | An hundrethgreat and goodly Cities ftand. fameto that Countiey, wherein he reigned ere ic init, Dardaof Tages came |