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A59170	Medea a tragedie / written in Latine by Lucius Annæus, Seneca ; Englished by E.S., Esq., with annotations.; Medea. English	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, ca. 4 B.C.-65 A.D.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1648 (1648)	Wing S2513; ESTC R17531	52,518	122

those who will have the Nuptialls of Iason and Medea performed at Sea Apollonius will have them celebrated in the Island Corcyra Some at Byzantium others in Colchis and with the Privitie of Aeëta Valerius Flaccus makes them to be begun in the Island Peuce and interrupted by the comming of of Absyrtus 9 Of all the Wealth by Scythians rapt away From Sun-scorch'd Dwellers of Rich India Meant by the Easterne Scythians Scythia by Geographers being divided into Scythia Europaea and Asietica Scythia Europaea concerning which see Pomponius Mela l. 2. and Pliny l. 4. extends from the Banke of Tanais Palus Maeotis and the sh•…ares of the Euxine Sea to the mouth of Ister Asiatica beginning from the limits of the opposite shores towards the East as farre as the Seres on the North bounded with the Ocean on the South stretching to the Mountaine Taurus on the West to Cappadocia and Armenia Though those Countries were likewise under the Subjection of the Scythians Ptolomy l. 6. Cosm. divides this Scythia Asiatica into Scythia intra Imaum Montem and Scythia extra Imaum Montem That intra Imaum he terminates on the West by Sarmatià Asiatica on the East by the Mountaine Ima•…s on the South by the Nations beyond the Caspian or Hyrcanian Sea and on the North by the Land called by him terra incognita That Extra Imaum hath on the East the People called Seres on the North terra incognita on the South India extra Gangem and on the West Scythia interior Both of these are properly called Scythia 10 Phaebus with Sysiphus his Nephews joyne Meaning the Issue of Medea Daughter of Aeëta Son of Phaebus with the Off-spring of Crensa Daughter of Ceron Sonne of Sysiphus Upon the CHORUS 11 When Ister like a Torrent r•…w'ld Ister is a part of Danubius or the Danow a famous River of Germany which as Pomponius Mela sayes Maintaining his course along while through divers Lands is called Danubius after by the Inhabitants of the Countries through which it passes Ister Ptolomy more particularly tells us That when Danubius is come as farre as the Citie of Accium a Citie of the Lower Mysia neare the Confines of Dacia in the 47 degree and of Northerne latitude It loses it's name and from thence untill it falls into the Sea is called Ister Which having receiv'd into it threescore Navigable Rivers falls at length into the Euxine Sea with as many streames as Nilus into the Aegyptian It arises not farre from the Hercynian Wood from a cleare Spring now inclosed within the Castle of Donaweschingen a House of the Counts of Furst•…nbergue Thuilius of all the Rivers of Europ as pliny sayes alone maintaining a continued course Eastward Vid. Plin. l. 4. c. 2. and 12. 12 Not Rhodanus with rapid course Rhodanus or the Rh•…ane is a River of Gallia Narbonensis arising from the Grison Alpes and from thence as it were compassing the Country with his winding streames falls at length into the Galliek or Massilian Sea 13 Not Haemus when the Suns hot Beames Haemus is a Mountaine of Thrace upon the Borders of Mysia inferior by 〈◊〉 reported to be of that eminent Height that a man from the Top thereof might behold both Egaean and Ionian Seas though Strabo seemes not to allow of this for a truth This mightie Mountaine if wee beleeve the Poets was once a man and the neighbouring Mountaine 〈◊〉 his Sister of whose Transformation see Ovid's Metam l. 6. 14 The sacred Grove which Pelion crown'd c. Pelion is a most noted Mountaine of Thessaly in a Cave or Grot in which Peleus marrying The•…is entertain'd as the Poets Fable and feasted all the Gods Vid. Claudian de Nuptiis Honor Mar. and Euripides in Iphigenia From whence a great part of the Timber that built Argos was feld and taken 15 To an unskilfull Pylot c. Who this should be that succeeded Typhis in the Pylot-ship of Argos is not agreed on some say An•…aeus others Euphemus but the most generally receiv'd opinion is that it was Ergynus the Sonne of Neptune afterwards slaine by Hercules 16 'Mongst unknowne Ghosts lies tomb'd in sand Typhis on a sudden as he held the Helme fell dead and was buried in Mariandinum a famous Cave in Bythinia Acherusia but whether before he came to Colchos or in the Return is not knowne Vid. Apollonii Scholiasten l. 2. 17 He from the Vocall Muse that springs Orpheus Who by generall consent of the ancients was held to be the Sonne of Phaebus begotten on the Muse Calliope de Orpheo vide Vic. Com. Santi Albam de Sapientia veter c. 11. cui Titulus Orpheus sive Philosophia Iereniam Hoelzlinum in Prolegomenis ad Apollonium p. 33. F•…lgent Mytholog 18 Dragg'd unto Haebrus streaming head Haebrus is a River of Thrace famous for the memoriz'd Tragedy of Orpheus into which the furious Bacchanalls after they •…ad torne his body in Pieces threw his head it is now called Meritza 18 Alcides Boreas Issue slew Calais and Zetes the Sonne of Boreas were slaine by Hercules in the Island T•…nos who as Apollonius hath it in the first of his Argonauticks in Memoriall thereof erected upon their Sepulchre two Pillars the one whereof was said to move at the blowing of the North Wind. The Cause of their death as I find collected by the Scholiast of Apollonius is variously delivered Some say the reason of it was in they that diswaded the Returne of Argos into Mysia to take in Hercules some say that Hercules did it to revenge the injury he had received from their Father Boreas in the Island of Cos where he distrest him with a storme Others in that they contended with Hercules about the Dividend of the Guifts given by Iason among the Argonauticks and some for that having received Hercules as their Guest they treacherously conspir'd his Death 19 He who could various shapes indue From Neptune who derives his Birth c. Periclimenus who by the guift of his Father Neptune could change himselfe into sundry shapes slaine by Hercules after he had transform'd himselfe into an Eagle 20 Forc'd the Stygian Sound Hercules as the Poets faigne descended into Hell on this occasion Theseus and Perithous attempting to steale thence Proserpina were by Pl•…to taken Prisoners Whose Rescue Hercules undertooke and by force perform'd and dragg'd from thence Cerberus Vid. Ovid Met. l. 9. 20 Alive on Aeta's Pyre repos'd His limbs to cruell Flames expos'd While mingled goares Infection c. Nessus attempting to ravish Deianira after he had transported her over the River Evenus was by Hercules yet on this side the River shot through with one of his poysonous Arrowes He to be reveng'd of Hercules cunningly before he dyes insinuates into Deianira That a shirt dipt in his Blood and sent to her Husband to be put on would reclaime his love from others and regaine his languishing Affection towards her Which advice she beleeving presently puts in execution and

of Oakes to penetrate the Earth and Globe of the Moone as Pliny sayes l. 2. Nat. Hist. c. 7. And as Plutarch writes to discerne Ships from Sicily weighing Anchor in some Parts of Africk being no lesse then 1500 Stadia Though all Mathematicians deny any visible object upon Earth or at Sea to be discerned the tenth part of such a distance adde beside the Gibbositie or convexitie of the Sea or Earth which in so great a distance must needs intercept the sight If any thing yet might be said to hinder the penetrating sight of Lynceus But the Fable of his wonderfull Perspicacitie seemes to arise from his cunning in finding out of Gold Mines which he discovered with such certaintie that thereupon the ignorant vulgar reported he could see into the Bowels of the Earth See Hygin de Poet Fabul l. 1. Here our Author seemes to adhere to the Opinion of the Stoicks and Piatonists who will have Vision to be by Emission of Radii or Beames from the sight to the Object oppugned by the Peripatetticks and the best Masters of the Opticks who say That Vision is by Radii extrinsecally flowing from the visible Object to the sight the Object being illuminated by the light and the Radii or light proceeding from that illuminated Body striking the Eye whose Radii extending in forme of a Pyramid whose Vertex or Point is in the Eye and Basis in the thing visible Vid. quae Alhaz c. 5. l. 1. As likewise what that Ornament of our Nation and Learning the Viscount of S. Albons sayes of Vision in his Natur. Hist. p. 65. 72. 144. c. 9 And all the Minyae People of Thessaly so called of Orcomenus a River of that Countrey formerly called Minyëus supposed to be the Sonne of Neptune Or as Apollonius writes l. 5. from the Daughters of Minyas perhaps after the manner of the Carians who as Herodotus report took their Names from their Mothers The Minyae were likewise of Baeotia called Minyae Orchomenii as some will from Minyas and Orchomenus his Sonne inhabiting the Citie of Orcomenus from him so called But the Minyae properly so termed were those dwelling about Iolcos 10 Creon Thy knees wee touch'd and did implore The Faith of thy Protecting hand c. The Antients made severall Parts of man the Seates of severall morall Vertues and Vices assigning modest shamefacenesse to the Fore-head the contrary vice to the Mouth Irrision and Sagacitie to the Nose Judgement to the Eare Pride and disdaine to the Eye-browes Pittie to the Knees which Suppliants us'd when they made their requests with Reverence to touch and imbrace The hand was the Pledge of Faith as Cicero sayes in the second of his Phillipp Those hands which were the Pledges of Faith are now violated with perfidious Wickednesse Which in the Act of Promise or Paction was held forth and touched by the Suppliant the reason as Varro gives it in that the Authoritie of the Antients consisted in the Power and strength of the hand Plutarch reports That the Flamins were wont to performe divine Rites Manu ad digitos in•… symbolically signifying That Faith is inviolably to be kept and that the hand was it 's consecrated Seat Upon the CHORUS 11 Rash man was he with Ships fraile-Beake Did first the treacherous Billowes breake This suits with that of Horace Illi Robur as triplex c. to which may be applyed the Answer of Carfilides Who being asked his Opinion what he thought of the Sea and Sea-men answered That there was nothing more treacherous then the first and that the others were it's Comrades 12 Drawne to too thin Dimensions farre 'Twixt Life and Death too poor ' a barre Alluding perhaps to that Apothegme of Anacharsis in Laertius That the distance betwixt death and those in a ship at Sea was no more then the thicknesse of the Barke Of which thus Iuvenall Inune ventis animum committe dolato Confisus ligno digitis à morte remotus Quatuor aut septem sisit latissima T•…da Satyr 12. Goe trusting in a treacherous Plank but foure Poore Inches distant or but seav'n if more From death and to the winds thy life commit 13 The stormy Hyad's A Constellation as Aratus writes of seven according to Proclus of six as Hesiod will of five Stars in the fore-head of the Bull whose rise and set was the Cause of Storms and Tempests These were the daughters of Atlas who so excessively bewail'd the death of their Brother Hyas torne in pieces by a Lyon that from him they tooke their Denomination and by the Commiserating Gods were converted into Stars Vid. Higyn astronom. Poet 13 Th' Olenian Goats bright Starre c. The Amalthaean Goat fained by Poets to be the Nurse of Iupiter so called from Olenum a Towne of Achaia neere which she gave him suck For which benefit she was afterwards by Iupiter translated among the Stars of her we have spoken already in the Annotations upon the first Chorus 14 Nor those which that old lazy Swaine Bootes drives the Northerne Waine c. Bootes is otherwise called Arctophylax whose first name as Manilius sayes is given him in that Bootes Quòd stimulo junctis instat de more Iuvencis Manil. l. 1. seu Sphaera He seemes with goad t' incite his yoaked Steeres The Northerne Waine consists of seven Starres in the Constellation of the greater Beare which is in all made up of 24 foure of which on the side of the Beare making by their Postures the Forme of a Quadrangle are called the Waine the three on her Taile if a Beare may be said to have one the Oxen Neare which Bootes being plac'd is stil'd the Waggoner or Driver called here lazy in regard of his slow Motion by reason of his Vicinitie to the Pole 15 The Pine of Thessaly c. Argos built of Thessalian Pines Thessaly being a Region of Greece abounding in Mountaines and Woods of Argos see more after 16 Argos selfe was then struck mute Argos was said to be indu'd with voice and more then that with Prophecy being by Valerius Flaccus in the first of his Argonauticks called Fa•…idicam ratem but more peculiarly the Mid-Mast of the Ship which was placed by Pallas her selfe and cut from the Dodonaean Oake which gave Oracles 16 When those Rocks that bound The Entrance to the Pontick Sound These are two Rocks in the Mouth of the Straits of the Thracian Bosphorus called Cyanae and Symplegades The first name given them in regard of their black Colour and the other in that as the Poets faign'd they justly against one another with violent concursions The ground of that Fictionarising for that to the Saylor in regard of their neer distance the Motion of the Ship and Sea they seemd now to part and then againe to close Or as I•…remias Hoelzinus in his Notes upon Apol. l. 2. vers. 608. writes In that the broken Rocks lying in the Sea in a manner close up the narrow straits

South Sinu Arabico Interiori on the East partly by Arabia faelix partly by Aarbia deserta The last of which on the North is terminated by Mesopotamia along the River Euphrates •…on the East by Babilonia and part of the Persian Gulfe on the South by Mountaines running along the Borders of Arabia felix on the West by part of Syria and Arabia Petrea Arabia faelix hath on the North Arabia Petrea and Deserta and part of the Persian Gulfe On the West Sinus Arabicus on the South the Red Sea and on the East part of the Persian Gulfe as farre as the Promontory Sagarus Vid. Ptol. l. 5. Cosm. 12 and 13 Those juices which the Noble Sweves inclin'd Neare the cold North in Groves Hercynian find The Sweves are a People of Germany who although as Tacitus reports de moribus Germaniae they are by one generall Name called Suevi yet are they not one Nation Of these the most antient and noble as he sayes were the Semnones who accounted themselves as the head of the S•…evians The Posteritie of these inhabited that Northerne Tract of Germany which is at this day called Swaben Peucerus is of opinion that the Swedes and these were one Nation there being but one letters difference in their names but others thinke otherwise and most make them the off-spring of the Suiones or Sueones the antient Inhabitants of that Land which is at this day called Swethland and not of the Suevi or those of Swaben Hercynia is the most celebrated Forrest of Germany if not of the World of which thus Pliny In the Forrest of Hercynia there are mightie Oakes which seeme to be untouched with the Injury of time of equall Birth and Age with the World with the encountring of whose spreading Roots whole Hills are lifted up And when they runne above ground writhing themselves into such Arches that Troops of Horse may passe under them Seated according to Ptolomy in the very midd'st between Gabrita Sylva and the Sarmacian Mountaines 14 Aemonian Athos Athos is a mountaine and Promontory of Thessaly called Aemonian Aemonia being a name of Thessaly deriv'd from Aemon the sonne of Ducalion as Thessaly from Thessalus the sonne of the said Aemon at first called Pyrrhaea from Pyrrha the wife of Deucalion 15 Pangaeus Top Pangaeus is a Promontory of Thrace respecting Macedonia So Pliny makes it Others a Mountaine of Macedonia neare to the City of Philippi Ortelius sayes it was likewise called Pieria and antiently Carmanius 16 These Tygris nourish'd Tygris is a River arising in the greater Armenia from a cleare spring in a plaine ground whence running and passing through the lake Arethusa he meetes with the Mountaine Taurus in his way at the foot whereof in a Cave he sinkes under ground and arises againe on the other side of the mountaine from whence maintaining his course through Thospita Palus he waters a great part of Asia and at length with two divided streams fals into the Persian Golfe a river of a most swift and violent Current whence it takes its name which in the Persian Tongue signifies an Arrow Now called Tigill 17 The fam•…d Hydaspes Hydaspes is a River of India arising from the Mountaine •…aus and falling into the great River Indus celebrated for the Treasure of his streames 18 And Baetis whence it's land a name did get Baetis now by the Spaniards called Gua•…al quivir is a River of Spaine running through that part thereof which in ancient times was called Hispania Baetica from the River now Granado discharging his Streames into the Spanish Ocean 19 Birds of inauspicious flight In the Originall it is obscaenas aves referring to the nature of the Fowles as the Kite Jay Night-Raven c. as followes which were Aves inauspicatae And so the version may passe 20 Darke Chaos c. Chaos by the Poets is diversly taken sometimes for the Aire sometimes as here and in the beginning of the first Act is meant for the Infernall Mansion Properly for that confused Mas•…e out of which this Mundaine Fabrick by the Act of Love was educ'd call'd by the Platonists the undigested World Some Philosophers though otherwise famous have dream't that this Chaos was companion with Demogorgon and assistant to him to the end that if at any time he should have an intent to produce Creatures he m•…ght not want mat•…er As if hee that could give forme to divers things could not as well produce matter to informe Boccace Geneolog Deorum 21 Where sooty Dis resides Dis with the Latines was the same as Pluto with the Greeks so call'd as Cicero intimates in his second Book De Natura Deorum from the opulency and treasure of the earth as from which all things take their originall and into which at l•…st they are againe resolved And therefore as he sayes Omnis vis terrena atque Natura Diti Patri dicata est And may be the same for ought I know with the Demogorgon of the Hermeticall Philosophers 22 From his wheeling Rack A while releast rest let Ixion have Ixion attempting to force the Chastity of Iuno Iupiter substituted a Cloud in her likenesse of which hee was reported to beget the Centaures when afterward boasting that he had knowne the Queene of the Gods he was for that struck downe to Hell with a Thunder-bolt and continually turned about upon a restlesse wheele to which he was bound fast with Snakes 23 And Tantalus sup free the fleeting Wave Tantalus either for that when he feasted the Gods he set before them the limbes of his Sonne Pelops in a most inhumane manner as part of the Banquet or else in that being admitted to the Councell of the Celestialls he revealed their secrets was thrust into Hell and set up to the Chin in the River Eridanus where thirsting and hungry he vainly catches at the flying streames and dangling fruit which avoids his reach 24 Let Sysiphus his Torments finde no ease Sysiphus was the Sonne of Aeolus and Father of Creon and therefore Medea wishes a continuation of his Torments who infesting Attica with Robberies was at last slaine by Theseus and feigned in Hell to rowle a weighty stone up a steep Hill which still when at the top tumbles downe againe upon him 25 You who in perforated Vrnes still vaine Still vaine successelesse Toile deludes c. These were the fifty daughters of Danaus who of their Grandfather B•…lus were called Belides these by the appointment of their Father slew their Husbands the sons of their Uncle Aegyptus the first night they lay with them and therefore here especially call'd upon by Medea for which they are said to be punished in Hell by pouring of Water into a vessell full of holes which they drew up likewise with Buckets pierced or bored through in the same manner 26 Drench'd both the Beares in the forbidden Deep The greater Beare called Holice and the lesser Cynosura are two Constellations included within the Artick Circle into which the Poets feigned Calysto