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city_n	call_v	place_n	river_n	5,315	4	7.0907	4	false

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A93121	Salmacis, Lyrian & Sylvia, forsaken Lydia, the rape of Helen, a comment thereon, with severall other poems and translations. By Edvvard Sherburne Esquire.	Preti, Girolamo, 1582-1626.; Marino, Giambattista, 1569-1625.; Colluthus, of Lycopolis.; Saint-Amant, Marc Antoine Gérard, sieur de, 1594-1661.; Sherburne, Edward, Sir, 1618-1702.	1651 (1651)	Wing S3223; Thomason E1217_3; ESTC R203560	66,602	185

along saith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Where {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} means no more than in the sea-mans Phrase {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as a little before Apollonius in the same book speaks {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Which Hoelzlin not improperly renders Marina oriebatur Sciathus oriebantúrque procul Piresiae Since to the sailer at sea making for any shore objects from thence discover themselves as it were rising by degrees The Nine-fold round Hyginus in l. de Poetarum fabulis c. 59. speaking of Phyllis expecting Demophoon at the appointed day of his return Illa eo die dicitur novies ad littus accurrisse quod ex ea Graecè Enneados appellatur Men breeding Phthia So after at verse and Seneca in Troad Viros tellus dare militares Aptior Phthie A Province and City of Thessalie the birth-place of Achilles {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Apollon. 1. Built by Minerva who near Pelions Crown With ax the large Materials cut down Which Peleus as Teucer of Cyprus and Telamon of Salamis when banished by his father Aeacus as his brothers likewise were for the casual murther of Phocus made himself Lord of Mycene A City in the Argive Territories whose founder Perseus is said to be so called for that the pummel of his sword hilt which in the Greek is {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} by which word likewise they denoted a Mush-room or Toad-stool fell off there Paus. in Corinth I have heard likewise saith he that Perseus being very thirsty and pulling up a Mushrome by chance there suddenly gushed out of the place a clear spring of running waters with which having quenched his thirst to his no little pleasure he from that accident called the City he built there Mycene though there be others that will have Mycenus the son of Sparto or Mycene the Daughter of Inachus to give name to it which opinions Pausanias yet rejects Erymanthus Pausan. Arcad {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. e. Erymanthus hath his Fountain in the hill Lampea sacred to Pan some part perhaps of the Mountain Erymanthus whence the river takes its name Which {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} gliding through Arcadia and on the right hand leaving the Mountain Pholoe on the left the Thelpusian Plains falls at length into Alphaeus Sparta The chief city of the Laconians where Menelaus reign'd built by Lacedaemon and so called from Sparte the daughter of Eurotas his wife Pausan. Lacon Eurotas The most celebrated River of Laconia which derives its name from Eurotas one of the Laconian Kings who {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} having by a Channel carried away the water into the sea which before made the fields Fenne called the Current now flowing like a River within its banks after his own name Pausan. Lacon Therapnae A Town in Laconia where Hellen was born and buried with Menelaus as Pausanias writes so called {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} from Therapne the Daughter of Lelex Lacon Beneath his hat The Scholiast of Aristophanes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} In Peloponnesus they call a Hat Cunea from the wearing of which Mercury is named Cunes But Eustathius expresly avers that the Greeks in Homers time went bare headed Festus may reconcile this difference who saith The antients gave hats to Castor and Pollux because they were Lacedaemonians quibus pileatis pugnare in more positum quo indomitum animum adversus Barbaros Reges Tyrannos significationem libertatis ostentarent Pier Hierogl lib. 40. So that I conceive here is meant rather such kind of Helmets as by Vegetius are described Pilei quos Pannonicos vocant ex pellibus Phoebus from envious Zephyre who appear'd His Rival could not yet secure the boy The story is thus related by Apollo to Mercury in Lucian dialog Mercurij Apollo {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. e. He learnt to wit Hyacinthus to play at Hurlebats and I plaid with him But the most pernicious of all the Winds Zephyrus lov'd him too and had done so for a long time but being slighted and not brooking to be disdain'd he whilest we as our custom was plaid together and I tost the Hurlebat on high blowing from the top of Taygetus drove it directly against the Boyes head with such violence that the bloud strait sprung from the wound and the Boy immediately dyed But th' Earth A Flowre produc'd that doth proclaim Of the once lovely youth the still lov'd name In the same Dialogue Apollo thus goes on {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} i. e. But of the bloud that was shed I caused the earth to produce a flowre the fairest Mercury and most fragrant of all others which carries certain letters in its leaves that do as it were deplore his death Of which see Ovid l. Metam 10. 13. Moschus in Epitaph Bion. Pliny l. 21. c. 11. 26. Dioscorides takes it to be the Vaccinium of the Latines retaining some similitude of name and so interpreted by Servius on this verse of Virgil Alba ligustra cadunt vaccinia nigra leguntur Her Eyes Whilest on his looks she feeds not satisfies In imitation of Musaeus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} A sign of Love as Heliodorus observes l. 2. so Dido in Virgil Expleri mentem nequit ardescitque tuendo Catul in Ariadne Cui languida nondum Lumina sunt nati carâ saturata figurâ Sandy Pylos Paus. in Messeniacis {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The Pylian fields are for the most part sandy afford little pasturage for cattel Homer testifies as much who speaking of Nestor stiles him alwaies the King of sandy Pylos Eustathius upon Homer reckons up three several Towns of the same name the first in Messenia where Nestor reigned the second in Arcadia where Nestor was born the third in Elis near to the Olenian Promontory This of Messenia is now called Navarinum where yet stands a strong Castle subject as is all Peloponnesus to the Turk upon a rising ground stretching into the sea whereinto it hath a large Prospect and a fair Haven as the Author of the Turkish History tells me Antilochus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} The Son of great-soul'd Nestor Homer Il.ε. of whom Pindar Pythic 6. Philostratus l. 2. Ieon 7. Horac l. 3. od. 10. Aeacus renowned seed Aeacus was the son of Jupiter and Aegina whose sons were Phocus Peleus Teucer and Telamon Patroclus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Homer passim in Illad λ. μ. Menaetius valiant son and the beloved associate of Achilles by birth an Opuntian who having at play casually slain Clysomnius the son of Amphidamus a youth of equal years with himself being banished his Countrey

though the Etymology hold the Disparity doth not for by Lucretius it is applyed to a River Quique nec humentes Nebulas nec rore madentem Aera nec tenues ventos suspirat Anaurus The brightest eyes {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which Meander improperly translates caesiorum oculorum fulgorem For {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} being equally attributed to the three I conceive rather signifies the brightness than that colour which is peculiarly ascribed to Minerva The Scholiast of Challimachus and Apollonius confirm this opinion who render {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} and {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} And Hesychius {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} In 's hand a Neat-heards Goad Some nice-eard Critick may perhaps think a Shepherds Crook would have sounded better in this place but we go along with our Author nor without authority for the {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} which as the Scholiast of Apollonius saith {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} though by the later Latines rendred Pedum ab usu consistendi Scalig. l. 1. Poet was by the antient Romans termed Agolum as Festus notes which he describes to be Pastorale Bacculum quo Pecudes aguntur which warrants our interpretation and expresses ●otidem verbis {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Cast away fear Agreeing verbatim with that of Ovid in epistol. Parid Pone metum nuncius ales ait Arbiter es formae certaminasiste Dearum Vincere quae forma digna sit una duas Which needs no other interpretation then what our Author hath here given But Venus her large veil unloos'd displaid Her whiter bosom nor at all was shy Let Ausonius here moralize Tegat oportet auditor doctrinā suam qui volet ad dicendum sollicitare trepidantem nec emerita adversum Tirunculos arma concutiat veterana calliditas Sensit hoc Venus de pulchritudinis forma diù ambiguo ampliata judicio pudenter enim ut apud Patrem velata certaverat neque deterrebat aemulas ornatus aequalis at postquam in pastoris examen deducta est lis Dearum Qualis emerserat Mari aut cum Marte convenerat consternavit Arbitrum contendentium Certamen oppressit Auson. Epist. 11. ad Paulum Juno they say thou gav'st the Graces life Our Author here makes Juno the mother of the Graces Hesiod in Theogon Jupiter and Eurynome their Parents Antimachus will have them the daughters of Sol and Egle Pausan. in Boeotic Servius in 6. Aeneid of Bacchus and Venus These were in number three their names Aglaia Euphrosyne Thalia Yet both their names and number I find controverted the Lacedemonians acknowledging onely two by the name of Auxo and Hegemon Paus. Boeot Homer but one whom he makes the wife of Vulcan quod gratiosa sint Mechanica opera saith Phornutus yet he names Pasiphae likewise for one of the Graces whom Juno promises to Somnus for his Bride but see the common received Fable and that moralized in Seneca in 1. de beneficiis Though thou to Mars and Vulcan Mother art Nor one nor other did their aid impart I know not how Mars may be excused but Vulcan had little reason to help so unnatural a mother as Juno who is said to have thrown him to earth from heaven when newly born for his deformity the Physical sence of which Lucretius in 5. de rerum natura tels us is no other then that Fulmen detulit in terras mortalibus ignem Primitus inde omnis Flammarum diditur ardor Nor would she ever acknowledge him for hers until such time as having made a chair of gold with such inward springs that whoever sate therein was catch't as in a Trap he sent the same for a present to Juno who sitting down therein was taken fast in the private snares and denied by Vulcan to be set at liberty until such time as she would discover unto him who were his parents whereupon Juno declaring the truth of the business she was set free and he admitted into the number and society of the Gods See Pausan. in Attic. and Servius in 5. Eclog Virgil Who from no Mother's womb Challimachus de Pallade in Lavacro {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} No Mother brought her forth But Joves head gave her birth Aeschilus Eumenid {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} One may a Father without Mother prove Witness the daughter of Olimpique Jove She from the wombs dark Mansions came not forth But Plant-like sprung no Goddess gave her birth Which Coluthus seems to have imitated and from thence to borrow the Metaphor of {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} as Nonnus from him {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} By Phereclu's advice Phereclus was the son of Harmonides {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Homer Iliad ε. For curious handicrafts exceeding fam'd Minerva's favorite who for Paris fram'd A Fleet of ships of equal bulk and trim Of ills the originals to Troy and him For he was slain afterwards in the Trojan wars by Meriones as Homer in the same place witnesses On the shore With frequent prayers and Sacrifice The Libations which were usually made before any voyage by pouring Wine or throwing the Intrails of Beasts into the sea are enough known from Virgil Ovid l. 11. and others The broad back of Hellespontus {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} frequent with Homer Oppian c. Virgil dorsum Maris Suidas expounds it {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Arnobius speaking of our Saviour calcabat Ponti Terga Ismarus mouth and tall Pangaeus Ismarus is a mountain of Thrace and a Maritime City of the same Region in the province of Ciconia mentioned by Homer in Odiss {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} expugned and plundered by Vlysses in his return from Troy as he himself confesses {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} From Troy cross winds me to Ciconia bare To Ismarus where we the City sack'd Here a River perhaps descending from the mountain and therefore so called Pangaeus according to Pliny is a mountain of Thrace Phillis rising Monument The reason of this Epithite Heinsius gives in Crepund Silian l. 15. where he writes Sepulchra sua in gratiam viatorum Nautarumque in Mari errantium in altum educebant antiqui unde elegantissimè {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} Naviganti {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} {non-Roman} dixit Coluthus citing this verse In which sense likewise Apollonius in 1. speaking of Mount Athos discovering it self to the Argonauticks as they sail'd