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A09765	A summarie of the antiquities, and wonders of the worlde, abstracted out of the sixtene first bookes of the excellente historiographer Plinie, vvherein may be seene the wonderful workes of God in his creatures, translated oute of French into Englishe by I.A.; Naturalis historia. English. Abridgments	Pliny, the Elder.; Alday, John, attributed name.; I. A.	1566 (1566)	STC 20031; ESTC S110480	40,229	130

féete two hundreth in hys handes and two hundreth on his shoulders so being loden or charged wyth sixe hundreth waight went vpon a ladder Plinie wryteth to haue séene one named Athanatus to haue a iacke on his backe waying fiue hūdreth waight going to a play with shooes on his féete waying fiftie pounde waight a piece Milo set his foote in a place from which place there was no man able to make him goe backe or remoue If that he helde a staffe in his hand there was no man able to take it away or wrythe it out of his fist For running there hath bene many light and nimble men that would runne a thousande a hundreth and threscore furlongs a day and more Also there are some y t haue their sight very singuler We reade of a man called Strabo of the country of Sicilia that is toward the East to recken cou●npt the shippes that parted from Carthage for to enter into the South sca. Cicero did recite that he did see the Ihades of Homer in verse written being included in a Nutte shell so small were the figures Marmecides made a Cart or Wagon so little that a flye did couer it And he made a ship that a Bée might couer with both hir wings For a truth there haue bene people that haue heard battayls fighting fiftie Leagues of for they haue counted the tyme hours of the assaults The memorie hath bene very singuler to some Cyrus Kyng of Persie had the memorie to know and call euery one of his army by their names Methridates the king did talke one day to his people in .xxij. languages without stutting or stammering Others léese their memory by fātastes or otherwise haue forgotten their vnderstanding Messalla the orator did forget by grieuous sicknesse his sciēces yea his owne name in such sorte that he knewe not frō whence he was Maruellous was the memorie of Iulius Cesar the which named to foure scribes or wryters at one tyme and in the meane time he read writ and hearde and if he had no other affaires he wolde name to seauen He sought 52. battayles And Marcellus 40. Cesar in his battayles is reputed to haue slaine of his enimies 1192. thousande men Pompeus did spoile and take from the pirates and sea robbers against whom he was sent by the Romaines 876. ships Moreouer Cesar had this cōstancie that the letters that Scipio did send him for to betray Pompeus he cast into the fire without reading them Cato was accused to the Senatours 42. tymes and alwayes absolued Sicinus dictator of Rome sustayned sixe score battayles he had fiue fortie woundes before and not one behinde Sergius was a worthy warrior he deliuered Cremona from the siege kept Placentia toke in Fraunce twelue Castles and Townes He had his right hande cut off and he made one of yron with the which he fought foure battayles Pitifull thinges are founde worthie of memorie thorowe all partes among the which it commeth to my remēbrance of a woman taken in Rome for to dye for offence and being put into straight Prison there to be famished hir daughter had lycence of the Iayler to goe sée hir euery day but shée was searched for feare least shée should bring hir mother foode In the ende it was found that euery day she did giue hir mother sucke with hir breastes and for to satisfie hir shee came dayly The Senators hauing intelligence therof did pardon the mother for the vertue that was in the daughter and did appoynte them a lyuing during their lyues Marucllous are the operations of humaine creatures amōg others onely of paintings that doe resemble the lyuing so nere that there resteth nothing but y e speach The king Attallꝰ bought a table or picture of a Painter whiche cost a hundreth Markes Cesar bought two for eyght hundreth Markes Mans age hath bene reputed greate among the auncients which do name Princes and kings to haue lyued eyght hūdreth yeares and a thousand yeares but it is by the varietie of yeres for some make the Sommer a yeare and the winter another yeare and others make thrée monthes a yeare as the Arcadians you muste not stay nor iudge things by the constellation of the firmament For in one presēt houre many are born as well seruaunts as maysters kings and magistrates whose fortunes are al dyuers contrarie Many examples we haue of sickenesses Publius Cornelius Rufus in dreaming to haue loste his sight became blinde lost his sight Some there are that liue but til middle age and others that dye in their youth and nature doth giue a man nothing better than short life To liue long the senses vnderstāding become blunt the whole mēbers féele dolor the sight the hearing and the going fayle the téeth also the instruments of meats therefore age is but payne and there is a tyme prefixed to liue We reade no better example than of Zenophilus the Musitian that lyued a hundreth fiue yeares without sicknesse The signes of death are to laugh in the ●uror grief of the malady or sicknesse to be bu●e in folding or doubling the clothes of hys bed with his handes to voyde from one in sléeping behinde a fearefull looke with other things and therefore séeing that by experience we sée innumerable signes of death therefore there is no certaintie Sickenesses are dyuers both to olde and yong Sirius died by the multitude of Serpentes procéeding from his body Some haue had an Ague all their lyfe time Mecaenas was seuē yeres in the end of his dayes without sléepe Antipater lyued long without sickenesse sauing that euery yeare on that day that he was borne he had the Ague We reade of one that lyued 157. yeares that slept in his age 57. yeares and weakened as thoughe he had slept but one houre Others that haue returned a foote from their graue when they were borne to be buried Pōpeus caused a mans heade to be smittē off which when it was layde againe to the body did speake an houre both to the maister of the house and to manye others of the house Death bringeth repentance Some die for ioy men in the hearing of ioyfull newes of victoryes and women to sée their children The father of Iulius Cesar dyed in putting on his hose felte before no harme Some in drinking some in wryting and others in dyuers maners as we daylye sée by experience Aunciently the vse was among the Romaines to bury the deade but for the often battayles of the Romaines that had all the worlde in their subiection they vse to burne the deade Among men Liber Pater found first the meanes to sell and buy also Diademes for kings for triumphes The Lady Ceres founde the meanes to sowe corne and to grinde it and therefore shée was called a Goddesse For before they vsed Acornes The Assirians founde firste the meane to write letters but the inuention hath bene since the beginning of the world Two brethren in Athens found

doth neuer begin to hourd vp but in the full Moone The nature of the windes are dyuers according to the diuersitie of Countreyes and they procéede of the earth and of the vapors of the same which causeth somtimes in many places earthquakes The thunders and lightninges doe neuer fall in the winter for the coldnesse of the aire doth kepe them in and choakes them therefore they fall in the Sommer and many times thei marre the wine without touching the vessell There was a womā at Rome whose child was slaine within hir wom be by thunder lightning and the womā had no hurt at all Thrée things there are that neuer feele any harme by thunders lightnings the Lawrel trée on the earth the Eagle in the Sky and the Seacalfe in the sea for they neuer fall vpon their skinnes therefore best assured are they that are so clad Naturally there are signes and tokens in the earth the sea the aire and therefore it hath rayned somtimes bloude stones woll yea great stones acumulated in the aire by the coldnesse therof The Raynebowe is not séene in a close rainy day but y e sunne beames entring into the concauites of y e earth do reflere the Sunne and make varietie of colours by the mixture of the cloudes in the ayre and is séene moste cōmonly in y e Sōmet Also there are neuer lightly sene aboue two Rainbowes The earth is y e mother of al liuing creatures In the ayre is séene many tymes darkenesse and clowdes the hayles are deryued of the wa●ers but the earth is lowely seruing to all cr●atures shée bringeth forth corne wine fruites all kind of things pertaining to man She bringeth forth yron lead golde siluer precious stones herbes seruing vnto mans helth yea if y t a s●rpēt chaunce to byte any person the earth will not receyue that serpent when it is dead The earth is compassed rounde about with waters the which is mo●e knowen by experience than by arguments some part thereof is not inhabited towardes the North bycause of the great colde An other part is not inhabited bycause of the extreme heate towards y e south The middle of the earth is the Centry to the whiche most wayghtiest thinges doe take holde In some places there is no shadow of y e sunne specially in Alexandria y e great where as there is a depe well without shadowe Anaxemenes Milesius was the first foūder of Dials There are many signes of mouings mutation of tymes without great appearance as in the sea when that without winde the waues do ryse and rage And in the skye when y t there is a long strype or line and when that the well waters are troubled Two mountaynes haue bene séene naturally hyt and touch one another as if they had foughten y e waters meting together to striue and maruellously to encrease beastes to dye In Asia twelue cities were subuerted by y e earthquakes without perceyuing thereof at Rome Neare vnto Rome there are two hundreth acers of groūd the which doth shake when there are horses running thereon In the Ile of Paphos there is a place where there did neuer fall rayne And in the same Ile Nea in the City of Troados the sacrifices do neuer putrifle nor rot Nere Nere to Harpasa a town in Asia there is a great Mountaine y t one may shake with their finger but if you put your whole strength to it it remay●eth vnmoueable There are two moūtaines neare to the floud of Nyle the nature of them are dyuers for the one re●ayneth yron the other casteth it off in such sorte that if any of their shooes be clouted with nayles that goe vpon the sayd hil they can neyther go nor stand but are cast off and on the other hyll their shooes will sticke fast In the City of Charagena there is a certaine groūd that healeth all kinde of sores and diseases the Sea doth pourge in the full Moone the fluctuations of the seas commeth by the Sunne and Moone the which causeth it In the hys Sea there neuer falleth snow the sea is most hottest in winter and saltest in Sommer Of fresh waters there are diuers sorts In Dodone is the fountaine called Iupiters spring whiche doth kindle firebrandes it diminisheth at Noone and encreaseth at midnight and then afterwards decreaseth fayleth at myd day There are many hote waters bycause of the smoke closenesse of the hylles from whence these hote waters spring There are springs that ●il make black shéepe become white and other waters that maketh white shepe become black by continuance of drinking and others that the ewes that drinke in them their milke will become blacke At Lincestis there is a fountayne of water that will make them that drinke therof dronken Also in Paphlagonia and in the fielde Calenus in the Ile of Andro there is a Fountaine or spring that rendreth wine euery yeare in the Nonas of Ianuary In a field called Carrimensis in Spaine there is a Ryuer that wil make the fishes that are therein to séeme of the colour of golde and if they are put into any other water they will séeme as other fishes Among the maruelles of fire the Mountayne called Ethna in Sicilia burneth continually the flames whereof are sene aboue the hill toppe An other hill that is called Chimera burneth in like maner the fire of which hill is so●er quenched with earth or with hay than with water In the thirde fourth fifth and sixth bokes Plinie describeth the earth the waters and the Ilands and deuideth the world into Asia Affrica Europa Asia conteineth the halfe of the world in the whiche is Armenia Capadocia Albania Suau●a whereas there is no mettall but golde Scithies where as is the sweete Sea and there are trées that bring forth silke ready to spinne India where there are people very ryche they labour with Elephantes and goe to warre with them Their king hath ordinarily sixe hundreth thousand foote men thirtie thousande horsemen and nine thousande Camels to his gages and to his dayly cost and when they be so old y t they can scarce sée nor can liue no longer they cast them selues into a great fire Beyonde the Indias is the Ile called Taprobane where as is the gréene Sea and there is planted precious stones with metals of golde and siluer The men of that Countrey are more greater thā others they sell their marchandise by making of signes the Moone neuer shineth with them aboue sixe houres they haue small edifices or buildinges and theyr vitayles neuer waxeth deare for their God they haue Hercules They doe electe and choose an olde man to their king which hath no children and if he chaunce to haue any whylest he is king they do kill them to that ende that the kingdome be not inherited by their elected king they do cōstitute xxx gouernours without whose assente none can be condempn●d to death If their king doth missedoe