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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A53639	The three books of Publius Ovidius Naso, De arte amandi translated, with historical, poetical, and topographical annotations by Francis Wolferston ...; Ars amatoria. English	Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D.; Wolferston, Francis.	1661 (1661)	Wing O693; ESTC R841	58,952	122

woman equal sweets receive Yet let not them perceive that you do feign And active motions will beleef obtain To mention what doth please us best forbear Modesty bids yet secret signs declare Shee that reward Venus perform'd requires Not that her prayers should ere be herard desires Let not the light your marriage-beds come neer Many things should bee undiscovered there The Play is done 't is time they should return That have our yoak upon their shoulders born As youths before my crowd of Maids write thus Upon your spoils Ovid instructed us Annotations upon the third Book OF Publius Ovidius Naso De Arte Amandi 1 PEnthisilia and a Queen of the Amazones Post Orythiam Penthisilea regno potita est cujus Trojano bello inter fortissimos viros c. saith Justin lib. 2. After Orythia Penthisilia obtained the governTrojano bello inter fortissimos viros c. saith Justin lib. 2. After Orythia Penthisilia obtained the government who amongst the most couragious Captains in the Trojan war made large proof of her valour against the Grecians Shee was slain before Troy but by whom it is uncertain Dyctis Cretensis lib. 4. saith Achilles inter equitum turmas Penthisiliam nactus hast a petit c. Achilles amongst the troops of horse finding Penthisilia wounded her with his spear and dragging her miserably by the hair slew her But Dares Phrygius saith Penthisilia Neoptolemum sauciat ille dolore accepto amazonum ductricem Penthisiliam obtruncat Now such as shall desire to know what these Amazons were I shall indeavour to satisfie out of Justin lib. 2. Ulinos Scolopitus per factionem Optimatum dome pulsi c. The two young Princes Ulinos and Scolopitus being by the Primates of Scythia expelled their Country drew along with them a considerable company of young men who seating themselves in Capadocia neer the River Thermodon occupied the fields of the Themiscyrians whom they had subjected and for many years accustoming themselves to rob and spoil their neighbouring confines were at last set upon and slain by the people The wives of these men perceiving all hopes of posterity were in their husbands cut off fall to arms first defending themselves at home afterwards transmitting the war to their neighbours with whom they disdained to marry calling it slavery not matrimony have dared a singular example of all ages to inlarge without the assistance of husbands the bounds of their republick Now incouraging themselves in the contempt of husbands that some might not seem more happy than others they slew those men that remained amongst them and with the daily slaughter of their neighbours they prosecute the revenge of their murthered husbands At length by war obtaining peace to preserve the state of their Government they prostitute their bodies to men of neighbouring Countries their male-children they destroyed but the Girls they carefully brought up instructing them in the exercise of fencing riding hunting and the like They were called Amazons ab 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 from the burning of their breast that it might not impede their shooting 2 Oiclides fell Amphiaraus called Oiclides from his Father Oicleus a Grecian Prophet the husband of Eriphiles whom King Adrastus would take with him to the war of Thebes but hee foreseeing hee should never return concealing himself was at last discovered by his wife Eriphiles to Adrastus for a chain of gold with whom going to Thebes an Eagle at feast stooping snatcht Amphiaraus dart and soaring up with it let it fall which fixing in the ground became a Lawrel Amphiaraus going to cut it down was by a sudden rupture of the earth swallowed up together with his Chariot and horses which Themis foretold in Metam 9. Subductaque suos manes tellure videbit Vivus adhuc vates A living Prophet shall his own Ghost see Swallowed ith'earth 3 Wife they say Laodamia who died imbracing the shadow of her slain husband vide supra 4 Iphias cries called also Evadne the wife of Capaneus whom she loved so intirely that when he was slain by a Thunderbolt at Thebes and his Funeral solemnized shee cast her self into the fire to be consumed with him 5 Rogus dies It was antiently a custome not to bury the dead bodies in the ground but to burn them with fire to prevent the Tyrannous abuse of their enemies who were wont to take up after their conquests the dead corps and execute their malice upon them This fire being made in a dead pile was called Pyra when burning it was called Rogus When the dead body was laid upon the Pyra his eyes were again opened to shew him Heaven if it were possible and a half-penny put in his mouth which they supposed to be the wages of Charon for ferrying him over the Stygian Lake 6 Theseus Ariadne Vide supra in Not. ad lib. 1. 7 Phyl●is went the Daughter to Licurgus King of Thrace who prostituted her body to Demophoon upon promise of marriage after the composing of those differences that his absence had incurred at home but hee by the weight of his Country affairs being detained after the limit of his promised time gave her leisure to suspect her self despised and despairing of the performance of his promise hanging her self was turned into an Almond-tree without leaves after which Demophoon returning and imbracing the naked trunk it presently budded and put forth 8 Guest did Aeneas who saith Virg. lib. 4. by the commands of the gods leaving Carthage Dido who was passionately in love with him after his departure slew her self with the Trojans sword which hee had forgot behinde him yet in truth Dido lived according to the best Chronologers eighty odd years after the Trojan though the Poet in his Romantick Poem take the liberty to make them contemporaries 9 Therapnean Bride Laeda the wife of Tyndarus who at Therapnae a Village of Laconia brought forth the Tyndarides 10 Endimion doth not a Shepherd whom Jove received into Heaven but ambitioning the love of Juno was first deceived with a cloud and after for his pride ejected the caelestial habitations and doomed to perpetual sleep whom Luna falling in love with concealed in a Grott on Latmus a Mountain of Caria 11 Cephalus a young man the husband of Procris with whom Aurora falling in love when shee could by no means make him decline his chastity ravished him by force 12 Capitol a famous Tower in Rome built by Tarquinius Superbus on the Tarpeian Mount after called Mons Saturnius or Saturns Mount where the glorious spoils of the Roman Conquerers were hung up It was called the Capitol because when the foundation was laid a mans head was digged up fresh and lively as if it had been newly buried it being supposed the head of one Tolus long before deceased whence from Caput and Tolus it was called Capitolium 13 Curia worthy There were in Rome several Curia's of which chiefly one built by Tullus Hostilius thence called Curia Hostilia which was