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A46424	A modern essay on the tenth satyr of Juvenal. By Henry Higden, Esquire. Licensed June 2d. 1686. Ro. L'Estrange	Higden, Henry.; Dryden, John, 1631-1700.; Behn, Aphra, 1640-1689.; Settle, Elkanah, 1648-1724.; Juvenal. Satira 10. English and Latin.	1687 (1687)	Wing J1278B; ESTC R218557	42,854	84

Tyrants Gate Hannibal being overcome by Scipio Affricanus at the Battle of Zama near Carthage in Affrick despairing of success or safety fled to Antiochus the King of Syria but suspecting that King was in Treaty to deliver him to the Romans he left him and went to Prusius King of Bythinia where as his General he overcame Eumenes but the Romans not thinking themselves secure while so Politick and Inveterate an Enemy survived dealt with Prusius by Embassy to deliver him up which Hanibal discovering to prevent shame dispatched himself by Poyson which he always carryed in his Ring for that purpose A poor Revenge of Rome and below the Consideration of so Great and Victorious a Common-wealth Page 28 th 19 Canna Where Hannibal in a pitch't Battle overcame Paulus Emilius and Terentius Varro the two Roman Consuls together with their whole Army being the Flower of the Roman Militia killing most of their Horse and above 40000 Foot upon the Place he filled three bushels of Rings taken from the Fingers of the slain Nobility which he sent to Carthage as a Witness of his Victory and therefore our Poet wittily Remarks that Hannibals own Ring did revenge the slaughter of the Owners of so many Rings at Canna Page 28 th 20 Macedonian King He laughs at the Vanity of Young Alexander for being melancholly because there was but one World could fall to his share as not a sufficient Prize for his Ambition 't is said Alexander hearing a Philosopher endeavouring to prove there were many Worlds he burst into tears to his Friends complaining that he had not as yet Conquered One among so many Page 29 th 21 Jove Alexander was so puft up with his Success against the Cowardly Effeminate Persians and transported to that degree of Pride and Vanity that he procured and corrupted the Priests of Jupiter Ammon to receive and own him as the true Son of that God and set on foot a formal story that the God had in a visible Figure conversed with his Mother about the time of his Conception which though it might be politickly done to awe the superstitious Persians and barbarous Nations who might think it vain to resist the power of a God yet it lessened him in the Hearts Opinions of his Gallant Victorious Macedonians and by ascribing all to sole Valour and Conduct of his Godship he robbed every brave Souldier Commander of his share of the Honour and Victory Page 30 th 22 Babylon A City of the Persians built by Semiramis the Wife of Ninus the Founder of the Assyrian Monarchy it was surrounded with Walls of brick being 60 Miles in Compass 50 Foot in Height and 200 Foot in Breadth where Alexander dyed by Poyson Pythagoras the Magician had foretold that Babylon should be fatal to him where notwithstanding the Oracle he was found mortal Page 30 th 23 Athos Here the Poet confirms his Argument with the Example of Xerxes the Persian King who not content with his vast Dominions makes an expedition with a numerous Army into Greece and as the Greek Historians relate cut a deep trench wherein he let the Sea and thereby divided that high Mountain which was a Promontory from the main Land and caused Vessels to sail round which is the Exposition the Commentators give of Velificatus Athos which does not satisfy me who rather conjecture that Mount Athos abounding with Pines they were by Xerxes cut down and made into Vessels and then Veleficati or put to sail and afterwards with them composed a Bridge over the Hellespont he adding immediately constatum classibus eisdem suppositumque rotis solidum mare Which if allowed the sence will be parallel as if we should say The King in his great Navy put the Forrest of Dean to sea calling the Wood by the name of the Place where it grew the Poet reflecting on the Greeks who writing their own History magnify their own Courage and Conduct by stuffing their Legends with monstrous Fables expose their Enemies to derision such as the making a trench about Athos and the drinking Rivers dry at one Meal Page 30 th 24 Eolus the Grecian Histories tell us that Xerxes to hold a Correspondence between Asia and Europe laid a Bridge of Boats over the Hellespont at the Place where Sestos and Abidos stood and the Place where now the Dardanelli are placed where the sea is about a mile broad where the Current being deep the Vessels could not ride at Anchor against the stream but must be fastened to each other which long line of Boats upon the first stiff Gale of Wind at East then called a Levant and blowing with the Currant must necessarily separate and brake which was the Fate of Xerxe's Bridge who to be revenged on Eurus or the ●ast Wind caused several Thousands of his Army being drawn up upon the shoar with rods to strike and whip against the Winde the Poet reflecting on the folly of the interprize says in a jeer Eolus the Prince of the Winds under whose Government and restraint they are kept in the Caverns of the Earth never used his Subjects the Winds so Barbarously Page 31. 25 Neptune An Ironical Relation of a freak of Xerxe's who being offended with Neptune as well as the VVinds for breaking his Bridge did cast Fetters and Manacles into the Se● to shew he had dominion over Neptune could chain him at his pleasure as well as scourge the VVinds perhaps to as much purpose as the Duke of Venice with solemn Pompe and State does yearly espouse the Adriatick by throwing a Ring with Ceremony into that Sea the Poet observes that Neptune was kindly dealt with that he was not branded as fugitive slaves used to be served Page 32. 26 Ferrys Xerxe 's being overcome by the Greeks neer Salamine under the Conduct of Themist●cles with great slaughter and a Total defeat of his Navy fled with a few by Land to Abidos and finding the Bridge broken was in a great Terrour wafted over in a small ●isherboat concluding so great and glorious an expedition with a base and shameful flight Page 32. 27 Nestor King of Pylos The VVisest and most Eloquent of all the Greeks who continued strong and vigorous at an extream age being near 300 years old when he went to the Seige of Troy by his rare Example the Poet shews the unavoidable grief and calamities that necessarily attend old age when at the death of his Son he introduced him in a bitter complaint against the destinies for prolonging his miserable life Page 41. 28 Peleus the Son of Eacus and Father of Achilles the valiant Greek who could not be comforted for the death of his valiant Son slain in the Temple of Apollo by Paris and Diaphobus in the instant when he attended to Marry Pollixena their Sister Page 42. 29 Priam the last King of Troy who surviving to a great age lived to see his chief City taken sacked and burnt with the slaughter of his numerous issue