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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
enemy_n	battle_n	left_a	wing_n	1,482	5	9.1514	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A06421	Certaine select dialogues of Lucian together with his true historie, translated from the Greeke into English by Mr Francis Hickes. Whereunto is added the life of Lucian gathered out of his owne writings, with briefe notes and illustrations upon each dialogue and booke, by T.H. Mr of Arts of Christ-Church in Oxford.; Dialogi. English. Selections	Lucian, of Samosata.; Hickes, Thomas, 1599-1634.; Hickes, Francis, 1566-1631.	1634 (1634)	STC 16893; ESTC S108898	187,997	214

us be of good cheare Endymiō King of the Moone and feare no danger for we should want nothing wee stood in need of and if the warre he was now in hand withall against the Sunne succeeded fortunately we should live with him in the highest degree of happinesse then we asked of him what enemies he had and the cause of the quarrell and he answered f The sonne of Phoebus and Clymene who having obtained leave to ride one day about the world in his fathers Chariot though sore against his will by his unskilfull driving scorcht a great part both of heaven and earth and was therfore strooke dead with a thunderbolt by Jupiter Ovid. Met. Phaethon the King of the inhabitants of the Sunne for that is also peopled as well as the Moone hath made warre against us a long time upon this occasion I once assembled all the poore people and needie persons within my dominions purposing to send a Colonie to inhabit the Morning Starre because the countrie was desart and had no bodie dwelling in it This Phaethon envying crost mee in my designe and sent his Hippomyrmicks to meete with us in the mid-way by whom wee were surprised at that time being not prepared for an encounter and were forced to retire now therefore my purpose is once againe to denounce warre and publish a plantation of people there if therefore you will participate with us in our expedition I will furnish you every one with a prime Vulture and all armour answerable for service for to morrow wee must set forwards The morning there but the evening here with all our hearts said I if it please you then were we feasted and abode with him and in the morning arose to set our selves in order of battell for our scouts had given us knowledge that the enemie was at hand our forces in number amounted to an hundred thousand besides such as bare burthens and enginiers and the foote forces and the strange aids of these fourescore thousand were Hippogypians and twentie thousand The number of their forces that road upon Lachanopters which is a mightie great foule and instead of fethers covered thick over with wort leaves but their wing feathers were much like the leaves of lettices after them were placed the Cencrobolians and the Scorodomachians there came also to aid us from the beare starre thirtie thousand Psyllotoxotanes and fifty thousand Anemodromians these Psyllotoxotans ride upon great fleas of which they have their denomination for every flea among them is as bigge as a dozen elephants the Anemodromians are footmen yet flew in the aire without feathers in this manner every man had a large mantle reaching downe to his foot which the winde blowing against filled it like a saile and they were carried along as if they had beene boats the most part of these in fight were targetiers it was said also that there were expected from the starres over Cappadocia three-score and ten-thousand Struthobalanians and five thousand Hippogeranians but I had no sight of them for they were not yet come and therefore I durst write nothing though wonderfull and incredible reports were given out of them this was the number of Endymions armie the furniture was all alike their helmets of beane hulls which are great with them and very strong their breast-plates all of lupines cut into scales for they take the shels of lupines and fastening them together make brest-plates of them which are impenitrable and as hard as any horne The order of Endymions battell their shields and swords like to ours in Greece and when the time of battell was come they were ordered in this manner The right wing was supplied by the Hippogypians where the King himself was in person with the choicest souldiers in the army amongst whom wee also were ranged the Lachanopters made the left wing and the aids were placed in the maine battell as every mans fortune fell the foot which in number were about sixe thousand Myriades were disposed of in this manner there are many spiders in those parts of mightie bignesse every one in quantitie exceeding one of the Islands g They are in the Aegaean sea in number 53. Cyclades these were appointed to spinne a webbe in the aire betweene the Moone and the Morning Starre which was done in an instant and made a plaine Champian upon which the foote forces were planted who had for their leader The order of Phaetons battell Nycterion the sonne of Eudianax and two other associates But of the enemies side the left wing consisted of the Hippomyrmekes and among them Phaethon himselfe these are beasts of huge bignesse and winged carying the resemblance of our emets but for their greatnesse for those of the largest sise vvere of the quantitie of two acres and not onely the riders supplyed the place of souldiers but they also did much mischiefe with their hornes they were in number fiftie thousand in the right wing were ranged the Aeroconopes of which there were also about fiftie thousand all archers riding upon great gnats then followed the Aerocordakes who vvere light armed and footmen but good souldiers casting out of slings a farre off huge great turneps and whosoever was hit with them lived not long after but died with the stink that proceeded from their wounds it is said they use to anoint their bullets with the poyson of mallows after them were placed the Caulomycetes men at armes and good at handstroakes in number about fiftie thousand they are called Caulomycetes because their shields are made of mushrums and their speares of the stalkes of the hearbe Asparagus neare unto them were placed the Cynobalanians that were sent from the Dog-starre to aid him these were men with dogs faces riding upon winged acornes but the slingers that should have come out of Via lactea and the Nephelocentaures came too short of these aids for the battell was done before their arrivall so that they did them no good The fight indeed the slingers came not at all wherfore they say Phaethon in displeasure over-ran their countrie these were the forces that Phaethon brought into the field and when they were joyned in battell after the signall vvas given and the asses on either side had braied for these are to them instead of trumpets the fight began and the left wing of the Heliotans or Sunne souldiers fled presently and would not abide to receive the charge of the Hippogypians but turned their backs immediately many were put to the sword but the right wing of theirs were too hard for our left wing and drove them back till they came to our footmen who joyning with them made the enemies there also turne their backs and flie especially when they found their owne left wing to be overthrowne Thus were they wholy discomfited on all hands many were taken prisoners and many slaine much blood was spilt some fell upon the clouds which made them looke of a red colour as sometimes they

were willing enough to come but that they yet are doubtfull and in suspence cannot comprehend how there should be any such Island but indeed I thinke they were fearfull to come to be judged by Rhadamanthus because themselves have abolished all kinde of judgement yet many of them they say had a desire and would follow after those that were comming hither but were so sloathfull as to give it over because they were not comprehensive and therefore turned backe in the midst of their way these were all the men of note that I saw there and amongst them all Achilles was held to be the best man and next to him Theseus for their manner of venerie and copulation thus it is they couple openly in the eyes of all men both with females and male kinde and no man holds it for any dishonestie onely Socrates vvould sweare deeply that he accompanied young men in a cleanly fashion and therefore every man condemned him for a perjured fellow and Hyacinthus snd Narcissus both confest otherwise for all his deniall the women there are all in common and no man takes exception at it in which respect they are absolutely e Plato in his commonwealth would have all women commō the best Platonists in the world and so do the boyes yeeld themselves to any mans pleasure without contradiction after I had spent two or three daies in this manner I went to talke with Homer the poet our leasure serving us both well and to know of him what countrie man he was a question with us hard to be resolved and hee said he could not certainly tell himselfe f Seven Cities of Greece strove for the birth of Homer which are comprised in this verse Smyrna Rhodos Colophon Salamē Chios Argos Athenae because some said hee was of Chios some of Smyrna and many to be of Colophon but hee said indeed hee was a Babilonian and among his owne countrimen not called Homer but Tigranes and afterwards living as an g 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 signifies a pledge or hostage hostage among the Graecians hee had therefore that name put upon him then I questioned him about those verses in his bookes that are dasallowed as not of his making whether they were written by him or not and hee told mee they were all his owne much condemning h Two carping grammarians that undertooke to correct some of Homers verses Zenodatus and h Two carping grammarians that undertooke to correct some of Homers verses Aristarchus the Grammarians for their vveakenesse in judgement when hee had satisfied mee in this I asked him againe i This touches some Commentators upon Homer who have gone about to give a reason almost of every word hee wrote why hee began the first verse of his poeme with anger and hee told mee it fell out so by chance not upon any premeditation I also desired to know of him whether hee wrote his Odysses before his Iliads as many men do hold but he said it was not so as for his blindnesse which is charged upon him I soone found it was farre otherwise and perceived it so plainly that I needed not to question him about it thus vvas I used to doe many daies when I found him idle and would goe to him and aske him many questions vvhich hee would give mee answer to very freely especially when wee talked o a triall hee had in the court of justice wherein hee got the better for k See Necromant b. Thersites had preferd a bill of complaint against him for abusing him and scoffing at him in his Poeme in which action Homer was acquitted having l Who was an eloquent Orator Vlysses for his advocate about the same time came to us m See the Cock a. h. Pythagoras the Samian who had changed his shape now seven times and lived in as many lives and accomplished the periodes of his soule the right halfe of his bodie was wholy of gold and they all agreed that hee should have place amongst them but were doubtfull what to call him Pythagoras or Euphorbus n Icaromenip a. b. Empedocles also came to the place scorcht quite over as if his bodie had beene broild upon the embers but could not be admitted for all his great intreatie the time passing thus along the day of prizes for masteries of activitie now approached which they call o Games and masteries among the dead Thanatusia the setters of them forth were p He alludes to the manner of the Roman magistrates who when they exhibited playes unto the people the names of the setters forth were Registred and the time how often they had done it Achilles the fifth time and Theseus the seventh time to relate the whole circumstance would require a long discourse but the principall points I will deliver at wrastling Carus one of the linage of Hercules had the best and wanne the garland from Vlysses the fight vvith fists was equall betweene Arius the Aegyptian vvho was buried at Corinth and Epius that combated for it there was no prize appointed for the q Fighting at all manner of weapons Pancratian fight 〈…〉 er do I remember who got the best in running 〈…〉 etrie though Homer without question were to good for them all yet the best was given to r Homer and Hesiod lived about the same time and it hath been controverted by many which was the better poet Hesiodus the prizes were all alike garlands plotted of peacocks feathers As soone as the games were ended newes came to us that the damned crew in the habitation of the wicked had broken their bounds escaped the Jaylours and were comming to assaile the Island led ſ Who were all bloody Tyrants or notorious robbers by Phalaris the Acragentine Busyris the Aegyptian Diomedes the Thracian Sciron Pitnocamptes and others which Rhadamanthus hearing hee ranged the Heroes in battell aray upon the sea shore under the leading of Theseus and Achilles and Ajax Telamonius who had now recovered his senses where they joyned fight but the Heroes had the day Achilles carrying himselfe very nobly Socrates also who was placed in the right wing was noted for a brave souldier t Plato in his Laches or Dialogue of fortitude prayseth Socrates for his manhood at Delium in which battell the Athenians were overthrowne by the Boeotians and ranne all away much better than he was in his lifetime in the battell at Delium for when the enemie charged him hee neither fled nor changed countenance wherefore afterwards in reward of his valour hee had a prize set out for him on pupose which was a beautifull and spacious garden planted in the suburbes of the citie whereunto hee invited many and disputed with them there giving it the name of u Academia was a wooddy place about a mile from Athens where Socrates did sometimes meet his schollers and dispute with them here Plato was borne and from hence Lucian takes this name which