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A18047	The fountaine of ancient fiction Wherein is liuely depictured the images and statues of the gods of the ancients, with their proper and perticular expositions. Done out of Italian into English, by Richard Linche Gent.	Linche, Richard.; Cartari, Vincenzo, b. ca. 1500. Imagini de i dei de gli antichi.	1599 (1599)	STC 4691; ESTC S107896	106,455	205

the Moone was reuerenced and adored vnder diuers and seuerall names so likewise did they then erect and dedicat vnto her Statues Altars and Images of diuers and seuerall formes for that with some she was called Diana with others Proserpina with others Hecate with other some Lucina and in Aegypt generally entearmed Isis And according vnto such the propertie of her names they so ascribed vnto her would they expresse her proportion of bodie her habit her natures vertues and effects And therefore according to the description of Propertius shee was depictured in the shape and due resemblance of a young and pleasantlooking virgine of most amourous and beauteous aspect hauing on either side of her forehead two small glistering hornes newly peeping forth and that she is most gloriously drawne through the aire in a purple coloured coach by two furious and swift-paced horses the one being of a sad and darkish colour the other beautifull and white which according to Boccace entendeth her powerfull operations as well in the day as in the night Festus Pompeius writeth That her charriot is drawne by a Mule comparing her being cold of nature to the barrennesse and sterrillitie of that beast and as her selfe giueth no light or splendour of her selfe but borroweth such her brightnesse of her brother Phoebus so the Mule neuer engendreth by any of her owne kind but by asses horses and other like beastes There are also who depicture the chariot of the Moone drawne by two white bullockes as Claudianus when he speaketh of that great search and enquiry which Ceres made for the finding out of her rauished daughter It is read that in many places of Aegypt they reuerenced the Image of a bullocke with wonderfull zeale and veneration which they cut out and depainted of a sad colour hauing one of his flanckes bespotted with diuers white stars and on his head were placed two such sharpe hornes as the Moone seemeth to carrie in her cheefest waine and lights imperfection And in those places they offered great Sacrifices vnto her vpon the seuenth day after any child was born and brought into the world as in token of their gratefulnesse and thanksgiuing for the safe deliuerie of such new-borne infant for from the moisture and humiditie of the Moone say they the woman receiueth speedier deliuerance and the child easier euacation And for these causes would they oftentimes inuoke her gracious assistance entearming her the most mightie mercifull and most sacred Lucina Marcus Tullius writing against Verres describeth there a Statue or Picture of Diana which he brought from out a temple in Cicilia and he saith that it was of a wondrous heigth and huge demension hauing the whole bodie circumcinct with a thin vaile or couerture the face of it of a most youthfull and virgineall aspect holding in her right hand a liuely burning torch and in her left an yuorie bow with a quiuer of siluer-headed arrows hanging at her back The torch or firebrand as Pausanias sayth signifieth that brightnesse and day-resembling splendor which she so graciously affordeth to the vncertaine steps of forren-nationed pilgrimes and disconsolate trauellers the sharpe pointed arrowes meane those dolourous fits and passions that women feele at their childs deliuerance which in this point is appropriated vnto her as she is Lucina Among the Poets Diana is called the goddesse of hunting and imperiall gouernesse of pleasant groues shrub-bearing hils and christal-faced fountaines giuen vnto her as some hold for that in the heauens she neuer keepeth any direct course but wanders and stragles from that true and perfect circuit which the sunne alwaies obserueth as likewise hunters in the chase and pursuit of their game leaue the most accustomed and trodden paths posting through vncouth thickets and way-lesse passage and they depicture her in the habit of a young nimph with her bow ready bent in her hand a quiuer of arrowes hanging at one side of her and to the other is fast tied a most swiftfooted greyhound with a coller about his necke set and inchased with many rich stones of infinite value and after her follow a troope of siluan virgines and light-paced huntresses whose habites and aspects I remember to be by some thus described Early one morne old Tithons spouse arose And raisd young Phebus from his quiet rest Drawing the certaines that did then disclose Him fast twixt Thetis armes whom he lou'd best He when he heard the summons of the day After some sweet repast streight stole away Scarce was he mounted on his glorious car When thwart th'ambitious hils and lowly plaine Scouring a pace you might perceiue a far A troupe of Amazons to post amaine But when they neerer came vnto your view You might discerne Diana and her crue A carelesse crue of young-year'd Nimphs despising The ioyous pleasures and delights of loue Wasting their daies in rurall sports deuising Which know no other nor will other proue Wing'd with desire to ouertake the chace Away they fling with vnresisted pace Some haue their haire disheuel'd hanging downe Like to the suns small streames or new gold wires Some on their heade doe weare a flowry crowne Gracing the same with many curious tires But in their hot pursute they loose such graces Which makes more beautie beautifie their faces Their neckes and purple-vained armes are bare And from their yuorie shoulders to the knee A silken vesture o're their skin they weare Through which a greedie eie would quickly see Close to their bodies is the same ingerted With girdles in the which are flowers inserted Ech in their hand a siluer bow doth hold With well-stor'd quiuers hanging at their backes Whose arrowes being spent they may be bold To borrow freely so that none ere lackes They neuer need be niggards of their store For at their idle times they make them more Sometimes when hottest they pursue their chases You may perceiue how fast the sweat distilleth In hasty-running streames adowne their faces Like seuen-fold Nilus when she prowdly swelleth For from the time that first Hyperion burneth They cease not till the widowed night returneth And in that swartish and estranged hue Causd by th'abundance of such blubbred heate They looke like youthfull men at the first view So are their beauties ouer-drownd with sweate Thus are those nimble skipping Nimphs displaid That vse t'attend that Goddesse Queene and Maid And thus much touching the description of those virgines which are said to accompanie that woods-delighting goddesse in her sports of hunting Pausanias writeth That the bow in which Diana her selfe vseth to shoot is made of the saddest coloured Ebonie cleane contrarie to the opinion of Ouid who directly describeth it to be of the purest gold and hee further writeth that her chariot is drawne by two white Hinds as Claudianus likewise affirmeth when hee sayth Downe from the steepest clouds-o're-peering mountaines Drawne in a chariot by two winged hinds Posts the commandresse of the groues and

them rather is vnshadowed and intended that Bacchus was the first that instructed and taught men how to till their grounds by subiugating and coupling their Oxen for the performance thereof Some writers vnderstand by those hornes so infixed on Bacchus audacitie impudencie boldnesse and fiercenesse approoued by the ouermuch taking of wine which makes men hardie and aduenturous as also impudent and shamelesse as is generally affirmed by Philostratus Festus Pompeius Porphirio Persius and others that haue writ thereof Musonius a Greeke writer sayth That vnto Bacchus were not onely hornes giuen but that hee was of many Poets described and defigured in the shape and likenesse of a bull the reason was for that as Poets deliuer Ioue transformed into a serpent lay carnally with his owne daughter Proserpina the which by him being great brought forth Bacchus in the forme of a young bull wherevpon with the Cizenians people inhabiting the further parts of Persia his Image and Picture was framed to the true similitude and likenesse of a bull But Theopompus and other writers say that they gaue those hornes so vnto Bacchus in that in Epirus and many places thereabouts were buls of that hugenes and mightie bodies that with their hornes being answerable also in bignesse the people there made them their great vessels to drinke in which there was a generall cup or vessell throughout all those Countries thereabouts and which fashion also spread it selfe afterwards into many other Countries round about them among which they alwaies vsed and accustomed to drinke out of hornes The Athenians afterward taking hold of that custome and manner framed their siluer vessels and bowles wherein they vsed to drinke in the fashion and proportion of crooked and retorted hornes But it is vnderstood with some that such hornes on Bacchus signified certaine few haires which from either side of the head were left growing in those daies which likewise now at this time the Priests and holy men of Armenia and in many places of India doe vse to weare and obserue which doe shaue all the vpper part and top of their heads and also behind in their neckes reseruing onely two mightie long lockes growing on either side before towards their temples which they vsed to bind with a fillet or lace very hard and so made them to stand of themselues erect and out right For which cause and fashion also Moses was said among the Hebrewes to haue had hornes and so was King Lisimachus with the Persians Philostratus writeth That Bacchus was oftentimes depictured and drawne forth in his Statues and Images clothed with womens garments and in effeminate habite when hee reporteth that hee went in such manner apparrelled with a long purple robe beautifully set forth and adorned with tires of silke vnto his loue Ariadne and that then he wore on his head a coronet of roses curiously composed made his companions and followers also were all in like wanton and loose abillements fashioning themselues some like rurall Nimphs as the Driades Oriades and such like some like the sea Nimphs as the Nereides Syrens and others and some also in the shape of Satires Faunes and Siluans and all these attended him going to his amorous delights and sports with Ariadne The clothes and garments of women so said to bee on Bacchus signifie that the inordinate taking of wine weakeneth and debillitateth the naturall forces and powers of a man making him feeble vnconstant and strengthlesse like a woman or that as some hold he was so depictured because on certaine daies of the yeare hee accustomed so to habite himselfe when those great feasts which were called Bacchanalia were solemnised and kept at which almost all the women thereabout would meet drinking and carousing in that abundance and immoderate excesse as they would become with the force thereof euen furiously mad brainesicke and wild with dauncing and leaping singing loud canticles beating one another running among the woods vallies and mountaines and vsing all strange and rude gestures and behauiours worse than people extreamely mad and lunatike And in this manner almost all the hither part of Thessalie for the space of tenne daies vsed to banquet and riot delighting in their barbarous customes and vnciuile obseruances Pausanias writeth that among the Eleans the picture of Bacchus was there cut out as hauing a long beard with a garment or gowne couering all his bodie euen to the feet and that hee held in one hand a hooke or sharpe sythe and in the other a goblet or bowle of wine and round about him were depainted forth many vinetrees and other fruitfull and commodious plants And with some hee was called Bacchus Bassareus by reason of that long garment which vsually hee wore and which was called Bassara so named of a certain place in Lidia where those kind of cloths were made or els it was so called of the skinnes of wolues which those women in their Bacchinall feasts vsed to weare about their shoulders for that in the Thracian language a wolfe is called Bassara Neither did those women vse onely the skins of Wolues but of Panthers and Tygres also which they carelesly wold hang about their shoulders in their fits of drunkennesse and furie tearing vp the grasse and hearbes with their nailes as they went along their haire hanging ouer their faces which they set forth with diuerse and sundrie-coloured flowers ouer one of their armes they wore a garland made of yuie leaues or the white Poppie for that this Poppie was supposed to be an infernall flower and growing on the banckes of Acheron and therefore the Ancients appropriated it vnto the companions and followers of Bacchus for that among some he was held also and taken to be the god of the infernall region whereupon as I haue already very lately deliuered the Poets doe affirme that hee was borne of Proserpina which was Queene of the lower kingdome wife to Pluto and daughter to Iupiter and Ceres It is written with Diodorus Siculus that Bacchus was not alwaies conuersant and merrie in drinking and in feasts but sayth that hee shewed himselfe in many seruices a very valerous couragious captaine and followed the warres with great fortunes manie yeares together in which time he would commonlie weare for his vpper garment the skinnes of Panthers and such like beasts He victoriously ouercame in battell sayth Diodorus many kings and great commanders as Licurgus Pentheus and others and also subiugated and reduced vnto his commaund all the hether India returning from thence with mightie triumph and victorie carried on the backe of a huge Elephant with all his whole armie celebrating and extolling the praises and worthy exploits of their lord commander Neither is it read that before his time there was euer any king or Prefect that euer triumphed in the warres or was led home with such ceremonious signes and testimonies of victorious preuailement ouer his enemies And therefore vnto Bacchus as vnto the first triumpher