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Show Miao ed stir ena Seinen The fecond Boke of the first part -_ . - en x - a - y Cuarnad mcneean the Aborigines, were the Pela/gi,an ancicnt Nation,v vho{ metin Dé nate to all Greeee:but their attiquitics arelong fincedead, for lacke of good records, Neither was their ¢ lorie fuch in /talfe,as couldlongfuftaine the name of t! it own Tribe ; for bitants, I he Sicani, they were in {hort {pace accounted one people with the former i Anjones,Aranci, Ratilz, and other people, didin ages sollowin difturbe thepeace of tin,whichby Saturve vvas brought to fomeciuiltic ; and he therefore canonized gg T os Saturne S_Anguitine calleth Sterces or Sterculias,or hers termehim Stercutins, and fay,that he taught the people to dung theit grounds. That Latintooke his name of Se. tarae,becaule he did /atere,that is,lic hiddenghere,when he fled from/ypiter, itis que. ftionleife a fable. Foras in Heathenifh fuperttition, it was great vanitic to think that any19 thing could be hidden from God, orthat there were many gods ofwhom one fledde fromanother; fo inthe truth of Hiftorie, itis well knowne, that no Kingreigningin thofe parts was fomighty, that. it fhould be hard to find one Countrie or another, wherein aman might befafe from his purfuit.And yet,as moft fables and poeticall fic Cuar.24.§.3. an Lady,was well contented totakean Arcadian name,and to becalled Eletw.whichin the dialect and pronunciation either of the Ceteans,or ofthe Ocnotrizns, was fir Elativas,andthen Latinas. *That this name of Elatus mayhavebin taken or impofed by the Arcadians,it isthe more eafieto be thought,forthat there were then two Families, the one of Aphidas,the other ofE/ats:,who were Sons ofArcas king of Arcadia, which gauename tothe Countrie: and betweene thefe two Families the fucceffion in that kingdome did paffe, almoft enterchangeably, for manyages, till at the end ofthe Troan warreit fellinto the hand of Hippothens ofthe race of Elatus, in whofe Pofteto titic it continuedyntill the laft. Againe, the name of Latinus, hauing a deriuatine found,agrees the betterwith the fuppofition of {uch an accident. This is the conic@ure of Reyneccius, whichif he made ouer-boldly, yet others may followit with the lefle reproofe,confidering thatit is not eafie to find either an apparant truth, orfaire probability among thefe difagreeing Authors,vvhich haue written the originals of Latinw. eta) : uer a Riner in Heli,becaufe death isa paflage to anotherlife;and becaufethis paflageis hatefull,lamentable,and painfull,therefore they namedthe RiuerStyx of Hate, Cojtus ofLamentation, and Acheron ofPaine: fo alfo becaufe men are {tonie- hearted,andbe-sy caufe the Greek Ancol people,and Ads ftones,areneexe in found, thereforetheyfainedin dts7a.,, Efyqsay like mannerit may be,that the originall ofsaturnes hiding him(elfe, wasfomeallufon 0 that old opinion ofthe wifeft ofthe Heathen, that the true God was ignetus Dasas itis notedin the 4dés,whencealfo Efay ofthetruc God faies, tu Deus abdenste, Forit cannotbe in vaine,that the word Saturnus fhould alfo haucthis very fignification, ifit be deriued(as fomethinke) from the Hebrew Satar,whichis to hide: Howhbeit I denie not but that the originall ofthis word, Cetiwmought rather tobe fought elfewhere. Reyneccius doth coniedure that the Cateans, bids defcended of Cethim, the Son of Jauanwvere the men who gauethenameto Latiam.Forthele Ceteans are remembred by3® Homer as aiders ofthe Troians intheir Warre. Strabo interpreting the place of Homer, calls them fubiects to the Crowneof Tray.Heereupon Reyneccius gathers, thattheir 2- bode was in Affa:viz.in agro Elaitico.in the Elaitian Territorie, which agrecth with Stra $0.0 faCity whichthe e£olians held in Afia,called Elea,or Elaia,Paufanias makesmention: Stephanus calls it Cidemstt,or(according tothe Greeke writing)cidamés, which name laft rehearfed hath avery neere found to Cethim,Citim,or Cithimthe Greeke Letter (D) haning(as many teach)a pronunciation verylike to(TH\differing onelyin the ftrength or weakeneffe ofvtterance,whichis found betweenemany Englith words written with the fameletters. Wherefore that thefe Ceteans being' defcended of Cethin, Cittia, ot Kittim,he Sonne ofJauaz,who was Pregenitor ofthe Greekes, might verywell rakego a denomination from the Citie,and Region, which they inhabited, and from thence becalled Eleites,ox Elsites,it is very likely,confidering thatamong the Arcadians,?hn cians, ALtolians,and Eleans,who all were ofthe eAdlique Tribe, are found the names ofthe Mountaine Eleus,the Hauen Eleas,the people Elsite,the Citie Eleus, Blatt, 10° Elateia, of which laftit were fomewhatharfhin the Latinetongue to call the Inhabitants by any other namethen E/arini, from vvhence Lativi may come. Now whereas both the Cereéand 4rcadianshad their otiginal from Cethim,it is nothing yalikelythat agrecing in language and fimilitude ofnames, they might neuerthelefie differ infout and pronunciation ofoneand the fame word.Sothatiasheis bymanycalled Sabine . whom fome(deriuing the sebines froin himJginethe name ofSabas : inthe likemer might he whom the Arcadiens wouldcall E/atws(of which name they hada Prinhe founded the Citic E/eteia ) be named ofthe Ceteans Latinas, Reymecciss likelihood,thinkes,that when Exrypilus, Lord of the Ceteans, (being the parting Sonne of os lephus,whom Hercules begat vpon Ange; the ‘daughter of Udlews king of ‘Arcadia " laine by Achilles in the Troian Warre :thendid Telephus,brotherto Earypiles, ni the Cetvans; whofearing what euill might befall themfelues by the Greeks ifthea ren : And Heywe : ted by Ocwetrius. ccie farther thinke ofTra fhould gocill) paffed into thar part ofItalie, whereas the Arcadians were PY beina themor gracious s, that Telephus being themore 0% 49 a among the Ocnotrian drcadians,by the memoryof his Grand-mother Ange, anAveadi- See Gb.r.cap,6.tions were occafioned by fome ancient truth,which eyther by ambiguityof {pecch,or s1eseq. fomeallufion, they did maimedlyand darkelyexpreffe( for fo theyfained a paflageo- thetime of Degeadiox {tones conuerted into men,as at other times menintoftones:)in ofthe Hyftorie ofthe World, z stiy pldl Of the ancient Kings of the Lasines vatill Rneas his commin g. thich reioned He kings which reigned ir a ee : in Latinm before the arriual l OfEneawere Saturai s, Pscus,Fannus and Latinus. OF Saturne there is nothing remembred, faue what is mentioned already,and many fables of the Greekes, which whetherthey be appliableto this man, it is for him! to iudge, who fhall be able to determine, whether : A ' this were the Sat urne ofAta the Greckes ,called by them xgoiec,or fome other, ftiled Sararve by the Aborizinzes. Forthe age whereinhe liued, may verywe the fame:but the names of * Stercer; and Stercutius (forit ll admint himto hauc bin may be, this name was not beeait di oes LD L,. +} SP Lecter 4 ve €als the Idolg borrow ed frortith eskil l hich he taught the people, but rather the foyle which they efthe hea! faid ontheir grounds,had that appellation from hun)do e rather make him feeme fome @: fieremre other man. 2 be i 30 OfPicus itis faid,that he was a good Horfe-man.Th e fable ofhis being changed into th a Bird,which we calla Piema 5 She » may the skill which he hadd bez. y well {eeme (asit is interpreted )to have erowne from ms oth infooth : -faying, or dinination, by the flight and cchattering of zeéu/ é Fowles, Fawnus,the Son of Picus, reigned after his Father . He gaue to Enander theisinterpreted Arcadian (who hauingflaine by mifchancehis Father Echemus king of-arcadia, fled in- co to Italie )the wafte grounds on which Rome was afterw ard built. ~ ; Pauna,called Fatua,the fifter ofFaueus,who was alfo his Wife.as all Hiftorians agree aftert the was held a Prophe 3 turne became teffe,& highly commendedfor herchaftitie, mutt needs haue bin much blemithed by her marriage,it felfe being which praife tis ekthe nine aan meerlyinceftuous. !olsit plea It is not mentioned that Fewnus had byhis fifter any 40any other Wife whichhe had,faue onely that Virgil childe,neither doe we reade Ofinahhctent giues vnto him Latinusas his Son, this namesterd byaNymphcalled Atarica, Sakgy But who this Marica was,it is not found,{ane only that her aboad'was about the Riuer oe Lirisnecre Mixturne, : : eB Ofthe name Latinas, thereare by Pomponins Sabidds recounte dfoure: one, the Son of Faunus,anotherof Hercales,a third of Piyffes du takes notice onely ofthe fecond,ofwhom byCirce, the fourth of Telemachus. Sus- Suidanin the he faith,that his name was Telephus, and word Latins the people anciently named the Cet#, were from his {urname called Zytiat. This acrees in effee with the opinion ofReymeceys,th e difference confiftins almoft in this only, that Susdas calls Telep has, the fon of Hercutes, whereas Reyseccius makes him bis Nephew fe eee , : oY afono : y ic fthe fame name. : 0 :This Latinus hauing obtained the fucceff ionin. tt nat kingdomeafter Fauaus,did promife his onely Daughterand Heire Lasinia, to Turnes the fonof Venilia,who was fitter to Amata-L atinus his Wife. Bur when enewsarrined in thofe parts withfif teene thips, or perhaps fewer,wherein aepats imbarked according to therate vvhich Thatydiaes allowés totheVeflels then he eee neewontand & two hundred men:the n Latinns finding that it would ftand ome aRENNER make alliante with the Troite,and moued with the great re= ne foneat, which himfelfe had heard of in the ‘Warre of Troy, gaue Shtetto Dim, breaking off the fornrer his @ppointment with Tareas ; who incenfe d here- |