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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

of the yeare which is the spring and feele no other wind but Zephirus Homer the region flourisheth with all sorts of flowres and vvith all pleasing plants fit for shade their vines beare fruit twelve times a yeare everie moneth once their pomegranate trees their apple trees and their other fruit they say beare thirteene times in the yeare for in the moneth called Minous they beare twice Instead of wheat their eares beare them loaves of bread ready baked like unto mushrummes about the citie are three hundred threescore and five vvells of vvater and as many of honey and five hundred of sweete ointment for they are lesse than the other they have seven rivers of milke and eight of vvine they keepe their feast vvithout the citie in a field called Elysium vvhich is a most pleasant medow invironed vvith vvoods of all sorts so thicke that they serve for a shade to all that are invited vvho fit upon beds of flowres and are waited upon and have every thing brought unto them by the windes unlesse it be to have the wine filled and that there is no need of for about the banketing place are mightie great trees growing of cleare and pure glasse and the fruit of those trees are drinking cups and other kinde of vessels of what fashion or greatnesse you will and every man that comes to the feast gathers one or two of those cups and sets them before him which will be full of wine presently and then they drinke instead of garlands the nightingales and other musicall birds gather flowers with their becks out of the medowes adjoyning and flying over their heads vvith chirping noates scatter them among them they are annointed with sweete ointment in this manner sundrie clouds draw that unguent out of the fountaines and the rivers which setling over the heads of them that are at the banket the least blast of winde makes a small raine fall upon them like unto a dewe After supper they spend the time in musicke and singing their ditties that are in most request they take out of m For he was in most esteeme among the ancients Homers verses who is there present himselfe and feasteth among them sitting n Vlysses had good reas●n to give place to Homer who lied so lustily for his credit next above Vlysses their quiers consist of boies and virgins which were directed and assisted by o Two excellent musitians Eunomus the Locrian and o Two excellent musitians Arion the Lesbian and p Two famous Lyrick Poets Anacreon and p Stesichorus having much inveighed against Hellena in his verses as the cause of all the Trojan war was strooke blind by Castor and Pollux but upon his recantation recovevered his sight Excellent liquor for a feast Stesichorus who hath had a place there ever since his reconcilement with Hellena As soone as these have done there enter a second quier of swans swallowes and nightingales and when they have ended the whole woods ring like winde instruments by the stirring of the aire but that which maketh most for their mirth are two wells adjoyning to the banquetting place the one of laughter the other of pleasure of these every man drinkes to begin the feast withall which makes them spend the whole time in mirth and laughter I will also relate unto you what famous men I saw in that association There were all the demigods and all that fought against Troy excepting q This Ajax when Troy was taken ravished Cassandra the daughter of Priamus being a virgin and preist to Minerva in the Temple of Pallas for which the goddesse sent a tempest which disperst the navie of the Grecians as they returned and sunke Ajax with a thunderbolt Ajax the Locrian he onely they told mee was tormented in the region of the unrighteous of Barbarians there was the elder and the yonger Cyrus and r The onely wise man among the Scythians who endevouring to bring in the Athenian lawes amongst his barbarous countrimen was slaine by the King his brother Laert. Anacharsis the Scythian ſ Scoller and servant to Pythagoras Zamolxis the Thracian and t The second Roman King Numa the Italian there was also u Law giver to the Lacedaemonians Plutarch Lycurgus the Lacedaemonian and * Two wise men of Athens that professed povertie Plutarch Phocion and * Two wise men of Athens that professed povertie Plutarch Tellus the Athenians and and all the wise men unlesse it were x Who was K. of Corinth and a Tyrant Periander I also saw Socrates the sonne of Sophroniscus pratling with Nestor and Palamedes and close by him stood z Socrates profest himselfe learned in nothing but onely love and that of young youths which he held to the best and noblest affection seeing that this was the best meanes to bring up the younger sort in the knowledge of goodnesse and vertuo but his enemies made the worst construction of it and therefore Lucian brings him in here with these young and beautifull laddes Hyacinthus the Lacedaemonian and the gallant Narcissus and Hyllas and other beautifull lovely youths and for ought I could gather by him hee vvas farre in love vvith Hyacinthus for hee discoursed with him more then all the rest for which cause they said Rhadamanthus was offended at him and often threatned to thrust him out of the Island if hee continued to play the foole in that fashion and not give over his idle manner of jesting vvhen hee was at their banket onely a Such a one as he would have in his common wealth Plato was not present for they said hee dwelled in a citie framed by himselfe observing the same rule of government and lawes as hee had prescribed for them to live under Aristippus and Epicurus are prime men amongst them because they are the most joviall good fellowes and the best companions Diogenes the Sinopean was so farre altered from the man hee was before that hee married with Lais the harlot and vvas many times so drunke that hee would rise and dance about the roome as a man out of his sences b The fable-maker No Sto●cks in Elysium Aesope the Phrygian served them for a jester there was not one Stoicke in companie but were still busied in ascending the height of vertues hill Nectom r. and of c A Philosopher scholler to Zeno the greatest Logician of his time and chiefe of the Stotcks sect Chrysippus wee heard that it was not lawfell for him by any meanes to touch upon the Island untill hee have the fourth time purged himselfe with Elleborus the d Hee meanes not the Platonicks who are call'd the old Academicks but the new Academicke who would affirme nothing and held it impossible that anything should be truly knowne and therefore hee saies they abolished all kinde of judgement What was the difference between these and the Pyrrhonians or Scepticks See Gellius 1.11 c. 5. Academicks they say