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A03097	The famous hystory of Herodotus Conteyning the discourse of dyuers countreys, the succession of theyr kyngs: the actes and exploytes atchieued by them: the lavves and customes of euery nation: with the true description and antiquitie of the same. Deuided into nine bookes, entituled vvith the names of the nine Muses.; History. Book 1-2. English	Herodotus.; B. R., fl. 1584.; Rich, Barnabe, 1540?-1617, attributed name.	1584 (1584)	STC 13224; ESTC S106097	186,488	248

at a priuye signe to fall to feasting tipling and quaffing betweene themselues aboue measure Which thing he deuysed to the intent the Sardian embassadours beholding so greate plentye and aboundance of grayne and vewing the people in such wise to disport them selues with al kynde of pleasure and delight might make report therof to y e kinge his soueraigne which fell out accordynglye For the ambassadours taking diligent view of all thinges they saw and dispatching their ambassage to Thrasibulus made speedy recourse to Sardis And as I am geuen to vnderstand hereof onelye proceeded a conclusion of peace betwene them For Halyattes supposinge the Milesians to bee oppressed with greate want and penury of grayne at the returne of hys legates hard other newes then hee looked for After this a league was established betweene them of mutuall hospitality and fellowship and in steed of one temple Halyattes caused 2 other to be sumptiuously built at Assessū beyng after restored to hysful and perfect strength Such was then the maner of the warre that Halyattes mayntayned agaynst the people of Miletus Periander the some of Sypselus who aduertised Thrasibulus of the oracle was king of Corinth in whose raigne there happened by report of hys people with whom also y e cityzens of Lesbos do iustly accord a miracle right straunge and wonderful Arion Methimnaeus sitting on the backe of a Dolphine by safe and easy conduite arryued at Taenaros hauing the name to bee the most excellent and skylfull musition on the harpe of those ●yme●● by whom also chieflye was inuented named and taught the kynde and forme of verse called Bi●hyrambus The fame is how this Aryon hauing a lōg tyme bene resident in the court of Periander was greatly desyrous to passe the Seas into Italye and Cicilie wher beyng growen in wealth and flowinge with infinite summes of money was lead by a desire of retyring backe into hys owne countreye and determyne to in ship himselfe at Tarentum for the speciall credite and good lyking he had to the men of his owne nation hyred a Corinthian barck to returne in which hauing a gall of pleasant wynde and beinge nowe without kenne of Lande the Maryners were all in mind to haue borded Aryon to enioy his money which thing y e pore harper perceyuing freely offred to depart from his wealth if therewith satisfyed they would shew mercy on him selfe and spare his life How beit finding thē cruelly bent not to bee moued with anye tears but y t either he must kil himselfe be buried on y e lād or fling hīselfe hedlōg into y e mids of y e sea he besought thē●sibly y t since it semed them best to deale so roughly w t him they would graunt him liberty in his richest aray to sing a song wherto they gladly yeldīg as beyng not a little ioyful to lend their eares to the chiefest and most famous musitiō then liuing on the earth He wēt from them apart into the middest of the shippe wher hauing decked his body w t most pretious and costlye furniture he framed his voyce to the sweete and melodious verse named Orthium which no soner had he brought to an end but al his pompe glorious arayment he threw himselfe headlonge into the Sea the shipmen held on their course to Corinth Arion receyued by a Dolphin was in perfect safety landed at Taenaros frō whence so arrayed as he was he framed his steps towarde Corinth to the seate and pallace of the king wher hauing entred a discourse of his straūge case incredible fortune y e king supposing him to ouer reach cōmitted him immediatly to close ward wher no mā might haue accesse vnto hī After that diligent serch was made for the mariners who beyng apprehended and curiouslye questioned with about Arion made answere that his abode was aboute Italy and how at their comming from thence they leaft him in florishing estate at Tarentum at which words Arion presētly appearing draue them into such a quandarye that hauing no colour of excuse they were compelled perforce to confesse the truth These thinges are verifyed by the men of Corinth and Lesbos Ther is yet to be seene at Taenaros a huge massy monumēt wrought of brasse Arion sitting on y e back of a Dolphin Howbeit Haliattes prince of Lydia hauing entred the warre with the Milesians gouerned the kingdome 57 yeares finished his dayes who second of that linage after the due recouerye of his strength offred at Delphos a piece of siluer plate of value incomparable and a smal dish of yron curyously wrought a thinge no lesse wonderful to behold then ought that hath bene dedicated in the temple of Apollo being the handy worke of Blaucus Chius who first found out the meane to worke in yron After the death of Haliattes the sceptor descended vnto Craesus his sonne beyng then at the age of thirtye and three yeares This Kyng mynding to haue a fling at the Grecians began first of all and encountred with the people of Ephesus who beyng inuyroned by hym with a siege gaue theyr Citty to the Goddesse tying a rope from the temple of Diana to the walles of the Towne Betweene the olde citye that was besieged and the Temple was the space of 7. furlonges These were the first that Craesus began to quarel with amonges the Grecians After this he began by piecemeale to be doyng with the seuerall cityes of Ionia Aeolia pretending agaynst each diuerse and sundrye causes some very weighty and of due regard other meeretrifles and very friuolous Now when he had subdued the Grecians in Asia and made them tributory to his seat hee determined to furnish a nauy agaynst the inhabitauntes of the Isles To the framing wherof when all things were in readynesse some say that Bias Prienaeus other that Pittacus Mitylaeneus comming to Sardis was demaunded of the Kinge what newes in Greece who shaped him such an answeare that it gaue him small courage to proceede in his enterprise The people of the Isles O King sayd hee haue made prouision of a thousande horses in full purpose to come agaynst thee and thy citye Sardis Craesus thinking he had spoken truth Would God quoth he it might once take them in the brayne to war on horsebacke against the sonnes of the Lydians who taking his talke by the end proceeded saying Most noble Prince it is thy desire to meete with these Sea fishes flooting on shore and what dost thou think they more greedy wish and long after then to take thee and thy Lidyans waueryng and tossing in the water to gleike the one the other syde for so many Grecians become subiect pentionarye to thy kingdome Wherwith Craesus verye much delighted for that he seemed to haue spoken wisely chaunged his mynd and made a friendly league with the people of Ionia that held the Isles in processe of tyme hee became conquerour of al those which are within the ryuer Halis For besydes the

this pitious and dolefull verse Herein they iumpe and agree with the Lacedaemonians in that the inferiour meeting with his elder yeeldeth the way and sheweth him a dutifull obeisaunce in riseing from his seate if happily hee bee sitting as he passeth by in which poynte they are vnlike all y ● rest of the Grecians besides Meetinge in the way in place of mutuall salutation they vse humble and curteous reuerence each towarde other bendinge their hands to each others knees Cōmonly they goe clothed in linnen garments made fast with a lace about the thigh which kinde of attyre they call Calasyris ouer this they cast also another besture of linnen very cleane white Garments of woollen are neuer caried into the houses of religion neither will any man shrowd him selfe in a woollen vesture which is accounted prophane This hath some agreement with y ● ceremonies vsually kept in y ● sacred feasts of Bacchus Orpheus which partly were taken from y ● Aegyptians partly deuised by y ● Pythagoreans For such as haue bene partakers of those ryts haue euermore abhorred to be buried in woollen garments Whereof also an holy reason is geuen which we dare not disclose Many other thinges haue bene invented by y ● Aegyptians as what day and moneth is proper and appertinent to euery god Likewise in Astrology what fortune is incident to him that is borne one such a day how hee shall proue in lyfe by what meanes hee shall miscary by death which thinges haue bene vsed of many that haue laboured in the Arte and Science of Poetry Also more wonders and strange sightes and euentes haue bene discussed and interpreted by them then by any other Nation liuinge For as any such thing hath happened at any tyme they commit it to memory awaighting dilligently what issue it hath and if the like fall out at any time after they coniecture of the ende and effect thereof by the example of the first The knowledge of diuination is so practised by them that they impute not the inuention thereof to the will of men but to certayne of the gods In their lande there bee these Oracles The prophecy of Hercules Apollo Minerua Diana Mars and Iupiter most of all retterencing the diuine seate of Latona helde at the city Batis These prophesies are not all instituted after the same fashion but haue a difference and diuersity betweene them Phisieke is so studyed and practysed with them that euery disease hath his seuerall phisition who stryueth to excell in healing that one disease and not to be expert in curinge many whereof it commeth that euery corner is full of Physitions Some for the eyes other for the head many for the teeth not a fewe for the stomacke and belly Finally such as are of knowledge to deale with secret and priuy infirmities In like sorte the maner of mourninge and funerall sorrow at the death of friendes also the maner of sepulture and vuryall which they vse is most worthy memory When as any of their familiars or domesticall friendes fortune to decease bee hee of regarde amongst them all the women of that family besmere and gryme their heads and faces with myre drosse and leauing the forlorne and languished corps amongest their friends acquaintaunce they them selues being straight gyrded with their breasts all bare and naked accompanied with al the women of their kindred wander about y ● sireets with most piteous lamentation and howling on the other side y ● men fast gyrte about the loynes thump beate themselues as the most miserable infortunate wretched persons in the world After this they cary out the body to embalme and preserue Certaine there be definitly appointed for the same purpose that make an occupation and trade hereof These when the corse is brought vnto them propounde shew to the bringers sundry formes pictures of the dead paynted or carued in wood one of which is wrought with most curiouse arte and workmanship which we thinke impiety to name the second of lesse pryce the third meanest of all demaundinge of the bringers to which of these paterns examples their friend shalbe dressed Being agreed of the price they depart leauing the body with y ● salyners who incontinent season preserue the corps with al industry drawing the braynes out by the nosthrills with a croked instrument of Iron in place whereof they fill the Brayne pan with most sweete and pleasaunt oyntments This done and finished they cut and rip vp the Bowells with a sharp stone of Aethyopia taking thereout the paunche entrals and clensinge the belly with wyne of Palme tree secondly with fresh water mingled with most fragrant delightfull spyces in place hereof they force and stuffe the belly it selfe with myrrhe of the finest force brayed and pounded in a morter Likewise with Cassia all kinde of pleasaunt odours except frankincense Hauing thus done they sowe it vp agayne embalming the body preserue it for the terme of ●0 dayes longer then which they may not keepe it The dayes exspired drawne to an ende they take the corse and wash it ouer a fresh annoynting the body with gum which is to the Aegyptians in steede of Glue and attyring it in a fine lynen drawne together with a lace they send him back againe to his friends His friends in y ● tyme while the saliners haue him in hand procure an Image to be made to the likenes and resemblaunce of him that is dead wherein being holow vauted within they cause him to be inclosed layinge both the Image and the body therein contayned in a toumbe together Howbeit they which in meaner estate and fortune cannot reach so high order the bodyes of their frindes in forme as followeth First of all they fill a clyster with the oyntment of neder which without any maner cuttinge or opening the belly they strayne it into the body by the inferiour partes Fundament preseruinge the corse as before 70. dayes The last day of all they dreyne out the oyle from the bowels of the dead which is of such vertue that it bringeth out with it all the inner parts of the belly corrupted and festered Herewith also they instil power into the body Saltpeter which is of force to depratie taynt and consume the flesh leauing nothing but skin bones which done they eftsones deliuer the body to y ● owners There is also a third kinde of vsage accustomably practised about the bodyes of the dead that if any one be deceased whose friendes are very poore and of smalest substance they only purge the belly and preseruing the corps with salt for terme of like time as before in fine redeliuer him to the bringers The wyues of noble men and such as are very fayre and of great respect for their hearty are not presently vpon pointe of their death geuen to be embalmed but three or foure dayes after

fearing least they should be abused by the inordinate lust of such as dresse them alleadging moreouer that a Saliner sometimes working such abuse vpon y ● dead body of a woman was taken in the maner and his villany discryed by one of his owne company If it fortune any one either of the Aegyptians or of forraine countries to be drowned and cast on shore the City in whose borders he is founde must sustaine the charge of the funeralles which in honorable maner must be executed and the body buried in the sacred and holy Monumentes Being not lawfull for his friends and allies any whit to intermeddle or touch the dead but the Preists assigned to the worship of the ryuer Nylus intoumbe and bury him so nicely and solemnly as if it were the body of a god The customes of Greece they will in no wise follow vtterly estraunging themselues from all orders borowed and deryued from other Nations Albeit Chemmis a great City in the Prouince of Thebs not farre from the City Nëa wherein standeth the Temple of Perseus senne of Danäe builte fouresquare and incompassed rounde aboute wyth a Springe or Groue of Date trees hauing also a large entry of stone on each side whereof are placed two Images of passing greatnesse within the pallace is contayned y e carued monument of Perseus whom the Chemmyts auouch often times to appeare vnto them out of the earth and not seldome in the church at which time they stude his supper which he was wo●●s to weare two cubytes in length affyrminge that at such times as that is seene the yeare proueth very fertile and prosperous throughe out all Aegypt This towne I say hath ordayned certayne games of exer●ise in the honour of Perseus after the maner of Greece These being dmaunded of mee why Perseus should appeare to them alone and for what cause in the celebration of their games they dissented from the rest of y e Aegyptians they made answere that Perseus was issued of theyr city adding moreouer that Danaeus and Lynaeus were also Chēmmyts and sayled into Greece in blasing whose Pedagree they came at lēgth to Perseus who comming into Aegypt for the selfe same cause as the Grecians testify namely to fetch the heade of Gorgon out of Africk came also to them and called to remembraunce his kinred and linage of whom hauing taken acquayntaunce and hearing his mother to speake of the name of Chem he instituted a game of all exercises which according to his appointment and first ordinaunce they obserue till this day These are the maners of those that lye aboue the Fennes such as dwell in the Maryses differ not from the rest neither in other things nor in estate of mariage euery one inioying the priuate fellowship of his owne wyfe in semblable maner to the Grecians Notwithstanding for the easie prouision of their foode and sustenaunce other thinges haue bene soughte out and deinied by them For in time of the floude when the ryuer ouergoeth the countrey there arise in the water great plenty of syllyes which the people of Aegypt call Lotos These they reape and dry them in the Sunne The seede whereof growing in the middest of the flower somewhat like vnto Popy seede they boyle after which they kneade it into cakes bake it for breade The roote of this is very rothsome pleasant good to eate being of forme very rounde in bignesse like an aple There is also another kinde of lyllyes much like to roses which in like maner haue their growth in the water from whose roote springs a bud vnlike to the former bearing fruite in maner likenesse of an hony Combe herein are contayned certayne smale kernells resembling the stone of an Olyue not vnfit for sustenance and cōmonly eaten of the Aegyptians aswell fresh as wythered The selfe same people when the season of the yeare serueth are busily conuersant in gathering a kinde of Rush called Bybl●s the top whereof they crop turne it into vse of foode the residue being much about one cubyte in length they partly eate partly sell Such as be desirous to make fine and delicate meate of this Rush vse to cast it into an Ouen broyle it some there be that lyue only by fish which hauing taken they incontinently draw them parch them in the Sunne like stockfish and being well dryed they eate them The cōmon sorte of fish vsed among them breede not in y e ryuer but in pooles being of this nature Toward the time of spawning they leaue the fennes make repayre generally to y e sea the male fishes in maner of captaines leading the ranke These male fishe as they passe still onwarde shed theyr seede by the way which their femals following after immediatly deuour and thereof shortly after breede theyr spawnes Now at the pointe of breede the femals forsaking y e salt waters stower backe agayne to the maryses to their accustomed haunte leadinge the males that follow after them and in swiming backe agayne they voide spawne being very smale cornes like the graynes of mustard seede which lightinge vpon the male fishe in the tayle of the rancke are swallowed vp and deuoured by them Not one of these litle graynes but will grow to a fishe as well may bee seene by those that escape the males and are vndeuoured which being nourished by the waters growe to smale Frye Such of these fishes as are taken swimminge to the sea are founde to haue the left side of theyr heads very much worne and gauled and in comming from the sea the right side the cause being this that both in going and comming they continually grate agaynst the shore and bancks of the ryuer as a direction to them in passinge to and fro least that ●loting in the middest of the streame they chaunce to stray and wander out of the right course At such time as the ryuer Nilus beginneth to swell all the lowe places in the coūtrey and Ponds neere adioyning to the ryuer doe likewise increase being then to bee seene great store of younge Fry in euery litle puddle whereof these should breede this seemeth to be a probable cause That the yeare before at the fall and decrease of the water the fish which together with the ryuer departe them selues leaue behinde them their spawne in the mudde which at the rysing of the nexte floude being eftsones moystned by the waters recouer vertue and growe to bee fish As touchinge which thinges let it seeme sufficient thus much to haue spoken The Aegyptians that keepe in the fenne countrey vse a certaine oyle made of a tree which the Apothecaryes call Palmachri These trees that springe naturally in Greece the Aegyptians accustome to plant and set by the banckes of Pooles and ryuers which is the cause that they beare fruite but very strong and rancke of sauoure The fruite being gathered some of them bruise it against the fyre other some frie it in a pan